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EEGULATIONS 



THE GOVERNMENT 



UNITED STATES NAVY. 



1870. 




WASHINGTON: 

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. 

1870. 



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Navy Department, 
Washington, March 31, 1870. 
The following Regulations are herewith established for the gov- 
ernment of all persons attached to the United States naval service. 
All Circulars or Instructions from any of the Bureaus of this De- 
partment, not in contravention with these regulations, are to he 
considered as still in force, and will he obeyed accordingly. 

GEO. M. EOBESON, 

Secretary of the Navy. 



CONTENTS. 



[A full index will be found at the end of the book.] 

Page. 

Classification of vessels . . . I 

Detail of command 2 

Special duties of officers - - . . ........ 4 

Admiral . . . . ........... 4 

Vice- Admiral, ............ 4 

Commander-in-Chief . . 4 

Commanders of squadrons, under a Commander-in-Chief, and 

Commanders of divisions 14 

Chief of Staff 16 

Personal staff officers 18 

Officers commanding vessels 18 

Officers commanding steam vessels ................ 36 

Executive officer 40 

Lieutenant Commanders, Lieutenants, and Masters 45 

Equipment officer 49 

Navigator 51 

Midshipmen 56 

Boatswain and Gunner 57 

Mates . 59 

Fleet Engineer. .. 59 

Chief Engineer 60 

Assistant Engineers 63 

Surgeon of the fleet 64 

Surgeons 65 

Passed and other Assistant Surgeons 67 

Fleet Paymaster 68 

Paymasters 69 

Passed Assistant and Assistant Paymasters . . - ........... 73 

Chaplains 73 

Professors of Mathematics 74 



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Page. 

Carpenters and Sailraakers. . -- ^ . . . . , ... - > . 1 . 74 

Yeomen . . 75 

Master-at-Arms ...» ......... ....... .........A. . 76 

Petty Officers generally ........ . . . . . 77 

Persons inferior in rating to petty officers 78 

Preservation and safety of trie vessel 78 

Sank and command ...... . 81 

Military honors, ceremonies, and salutes . . 85 

Funeral honors ...-...--....-.. . 97 

Distinguishing flags of officers, (see Signal book.) ........ ^04 

General instructions .._... ........ ..._ 105 

Applications and qualifications . . 121 

Examinations -—--.- - - - - - 124 

Appointments and promotions ,.-.... ... 126 

Ratings and disratings ................ 133 

Rules to prevent collisions 135 

Preservation of health of crew 140 

Stores and outfits ...................... . . . = . . . . „ 142 

Apartments and messes ........ 144 

Naval transports 147 

Convoys ._ ... . 148 

Prizes, or vessels seized as such, and prisoners 150 

Paroling. 154 

Flags of truce. 156 

Quarantine ....-„......„...„...„_.. ...... . . 157 

Transfers ...... .... 158 

Discharges 159 

Honorable discharges .. 160 

Continuous service certificates 162 

Desertions 163 

Medals of honor.... ................................... 166 

Allotments 167 

Port Admiral 168 

Commanding Officer of a Navy Yard 169 

Executive Officer of a Navy Yard 175 

Lieutenants, Masters,, and Ensigns of a Navy Yard . ... 175 

Ordnance Officer of a Navy Yard 176 

Navigation Officer of a Navy Yard 177 

Equipment Officer of a Navy Yard 179 



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Page. 

Chief Engineer of a Navy Yard 181 

Chief Engineers appointed as inspectors of machinery afloat- . 183 

Surgeon of a Navy Yard 183 

Naval Hospitals — 184 

Surgeon of a Naval Hosx>ital 185 

Passed and other Assistant Surgeons of a Navy Yard or 

Hospital . . . - 185 

Paymaster of a Navy Yard . 185 

Inspectors in charge of Paymasters' stores 186 

Naval Constructors . . . . . - . - 187 

Civil Engineers 189 

Foremen . ~ 191 

Officers in charge of stores 193 

Time Clerks 196 

Mustering workmen and Check Officers 196 

Purchasing Agents at Shore Stations 197 

Inspectors at Navy Yards and Naval Stations 200 

Commanding Officers of Naval Stations 200 

Marines — When embarked 201 

Marines — Enlistment of . . . . . 203 

Marines — When at the Navy Yards ..... 203 

Recruiting 205 

Receiving vessels .... 211 

Surveys 214 

Pensions 220 

Leaves of absence 222 

Furloughs «. ........ ..... 224 

Correspondence , . 224 

Approval of requisitions, accounts, and muster books, pur- 
chases, and articles delivered 229 

General Muster-book 232 

Books 233 

Traveling and other allowances; rules concerning the com- 
mencement and end of rates of pay 233 

Accounts 240 

Boards ! 246 

United States Naval Asylum 247 

Arms of the United States 250 

Seamen Gunners 250 



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APPENDIX. 

Page. 

Returns to be prepared and transmitted 255 

Form No. 1 — A report of sailing and other qualities 262 

Form No. 2 — A synox)sis of steam-log 266 

Form No. 3 — Descriptive muster-roll *V- ■ 268 

Form No. 4— Description of deserters, &c 269 

Form No. 5 — Register of orders given, letters written, &c...-. 269 

Form No. 6 — Register of signals 270 

Form No. 7 — Quarterly return of punishments . 270 

Form No. 8 — List of men sick at Hospital, &c . . 271 

Form No. 9 — List of absentees without leave, &c . . 271 

Form No. 10 — List of officers or others about to sail as passengers 271 

Form No. 11 — Transcript list . 272 

Form No. 12 — Descriptive list ._ 272 

Form No. 13 — Weekly return from a naval rendezvous 273 

Form No. 14 — Weekly return of recruits on board a receiving 

ship 275 

Form No. 15 — Letter to be given to a prize master by a com- 
manding officer 278 

Form No. 16 — Letter of application for an examination. . .... 280 

Form No. 17 — Letter of acceptance 281 

Form No. 18 — Article of agreement ' . ." . . 282 

Form No. 19— Request for a survey, orders for, &c 282 

Form No. 20 — Quarterly returns of the number and rating of a 

crew „ 284 

Form No. 21 — Weekly return of enlistments at a rendezvous. . 285 

Form No. 22 — Discharges 285 

Form No. 23 — Honorable discharges - 286 

Form No. 24 — Surgeon's certificate of examination 287 

Form No. 25 — Commanding officer's report of death or disability 

in line of duty to establish claim for pension 287 

Form No. 26 — Surgeon's report of death 288 

Form No. 27 — Surgeon's report of disability 288 

Form No. 28 — Application for disability survey from Surgeon 

of a Naval Hospital 289 

Form No. 29 — Report of survey, in case of disability, to deter- 
mine if cause of disability originated in line of duty 290 

Form No. 30 — Report of death, and order for board to determine 

if cause of death originated in line of duty 290 



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Page. 
Form No. 31 — Report of board to determine if cause of death 

originated in line of dnty 291 

Form No. 32 — Descriptive list to accompany reports in cases 

for pensions 292 

Form No. 33 — List and description of men honorably discharged 293 
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EEGULATIONS 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 



ARTICLE I. 
Classification of Tessels. 

FIRST RATES. 



1 . . Screw steamships of 3,000 tons and upwards. 
Paddle steamers of 3 ; 000 tons and upwards. 
Iron-clad sea steamers of 3,000 tons and upwards. 
Wooden ships of the line (if put in commission for sea-service.) 



SECOND RATES. 

2 . . Screw steamships of 2,000 tons up to 3,000 tons. 
Paddle steamers of 2,000 tons up to 3,000 tons. 
Iron-clad sea steamers of 2,000 tons up to 3,000 tons. 
Sailing frigates (if put in commission for sea-service.) 

THIRD RATES. 

3. . Screw steamships of 800 tons up to 2,000 tons. 
Paddle steamers of 800 tons up to 2,000 tons. 
Iron-clad sea steamers of 1,200 tons up to 2,000 tons. 
Sailing vessels-of-war of the sloop class (if put in commission 
for sea-service.) 

FOURTH RATES. 

4 . . Screw steamships of all tonnage below 800 tons. 
Paddle steamers of all tonnage below 800 tons. 
Small class iron vessels. 
Store-ships. 



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Detail of Command. 



5.. Whenever any of the vessels above named are used as store- 
ships or receiving-ships, they shall rate lower, according to decision 
of Department. 

ARTICLE II. 

Detail of Command 

The assignment of commands of the Naval Officers of the United 
States shall be as follows : n 

6.. The Admiral commands a fleet or fleets of the United States. 

7.. The Yice-Admiral may command a fleet. He may be Com- 
mander in-Chief of a squadron. He may be Chief-of-Staff of a na- 
val force commanded by an Admiral. He may command naval sta- 
tions. 

8.- A Rear- Admiral may command in chief a fleet or sqnadron. 
He commands a squadron or division under an Admiral or Yice-Ad- 
miral. He may be Chief-of-Staff of a naval force commanded by 
the Admiral or Yice-Admiral. He may command naval stations. 

9.. A Commodore may command a division or a squadron. He 
maybe Chief-of-Staff of a naval force commanded by a Yice-Ad- 
miral or Rear- Admiral. He may command ships of the first class. 
He may command naval stations. He may command a vessel with 
an Admiral, Yice-Admiral, or Rear- Admiral commanding a fleet or 
squadron, onboard. 

10. .A Captain commands a vessel of the second class. He may 
command a vessel of the first class under a Commodore, Rear- Ad- 
miral, or Yice-Admiral, or otherwise. He may be employed as aid 
to either grade of Admirals. He may be employed as Chief-of-Staff 
to a naval force or detached division commanded by a Commodore 
or Rear- Admiral. He may be employed on duty under different 
bureaus. He may act as second in command of shore stations. He 
may command shore stations. He may command small practice or 
flying squadrons. 

11 . .A Commander commands a vessel of the third class. He may 
be employed as Chief-of-Staff to a Commodore commanding a di- 
vision or squadron. He may be employed as Executive Officer at 
shore stations. He may be employed on duty under different bu- 
reaus. He may be employed as aid to an Admiral of either grade. 



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Detail of Command. 



12 -.A Lieutenant Commander commands a vessel of the fourth 
class. He may act as aid fco Yice- Admiral, Eear-Admiral, or Com- 
modore commanding squadron or division. He may act as Execu- 
tive Officer to first, second, and third classes of vessels. He may 
perform the duties of Watch and Navigating Officer, and command 
a division on hoard of vessels of the first, second, and third classes. 
He may perform duty at shore stations^ (including the Naval Acad- 
emy,) and under the bureaus. He may act as aid to a Commodore 
commanding a division or squadron. If at any time the list of 
Lieutenant Commanders should he reduced to eighty, this class of 
officers will not be required to perform any lower duty than that of 
Executive, Navigating, and Ordnance Officers on board first, second, 
and third rates. 

13. -A Lieutenant may perform duty on board vessels of the first, 
second, and third class, as a Watch Officer in command of a division, 
and in the engine-room when required. He may act as Executive 
Officer of a vessel of the fourth class, and may be attached to shore 
stations, (including Naval Academy.) He may also be detailed as 
Navigating and Ordnance Officer on board a vessel of the fourth 
class. 

14 ..A Master will be attached to first, second, and third-class 
vessels to act as assistant to Navigating Officer, and will perform 
the duty of Navigating and Watch officer on board vessels of the 
fourth class. He may perform duty in the engine-room when re- 
quired. 

15 . . Ensigns will be ordered to the different classes of vessels in 
the Navy as circumstances may require. They may be required to 
take their tour of duty in the engine-room when the ship is under 
steam. They will perform the duties of masters' mates of decks, 
hold, and forecastle, when required. 

16 . . Midshipmen are to perform such duties as may be assigned 
them by their Commanding Officer, including duties on the several 
decks, in the hold, and in the engine-room. 

17 . . The title " Commander-in-Chief' applies only to officers com- 
manding fleets, or squadrons on independent service. 

18 . . An officer sent on detached service in command of a portion 
of a fleet takes, while he is separated from the chief command, the 
title of commander of detached division. 



REGULATIONS FOR THE 



Special Duties of Officers — Duties of Admiral, etc. 

ARTICLE III. 
Special Duties of Officers. 

DUTIES OF ADMIRAL. 

19.. The special duty of the Admiral is to command fleets of the 
United States, when acting together, in time of war. 

20 . . He is to exercise supervision over fleets preparing for sea dur- 
ing war, and will see that they are fally equipped before sailing. « 

21 ..When a fleet comes into a port, after an encounter with an 
enemy, the Admiral is to ascertain the extent of damages, and as 
soon as possible put the Department in possession of such informa- 
tion as will enable it to make good the injuries received at the 
earliest practicable moment. 

22 . . It will be the duty of the Admiral to keep a record of the 
naval forces of all foreign powers, their strength on different sta- 
tions, including number of guns and men, size of vessels, names of 
Commanding Officers, &c. ; so that the Department can at any mo- 
ment be supplied with this information. 

23 . .The Admiral will supply himself with information in regard 
to all foreign ports where vessels in time of war are liable to con- 
gregate, their facilities for supplies, friendliness or hostility of their 
governments to us, and all other information necessary to enable 
the Department to select the right class of vessels to send abroad. 
The Admiral is to make such suggestions to the Secretary of the 
Navy from time to time as will improve the discipline and efficiency 
of the service, and will draw his attention to imperfections, which, 
if allowed to exist, might prove of serious injury to the service. 

24. -During the absence of the Admiral abroad, or during his ill- 
ness, or other inability, the above duties shall be performed by the 
Vice-Admiral. 

DUTIES OF VICE-ADMIRAL. 

2 5.. The Vice-Admiral may command a foreign station where a 
Rear- Admiral has immediate command of the squadron. 

COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF. 

2 6.. The Commander-in-Chief of a fleet or a squadron shall enjoy 



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Duties of Commander-in-Chief. 



the rights, honors, and prerogatives which pertain to his rank, from 
the day on which he hoists his flag to the day on which he hauls it 
down on his return to the United States. On assuming his command, 
he will make known the officers who are to compose his staff, in a 
general order. 

2 7 . . If the fleet or squadron is to be equipped under his direction 
he will use every exertion to forward the work. 

28.. Should deficiencies or defects be discovered in any vessel as- 
signed to his command, that may render her unfit for the service 
which is to be performed, he will represent them to the Secretary of 
the Navy. 

2 9.. Just before sailing for foreign service, and quarterly there- 
after, he will notify the proper bureaus of the length of time 
for which the fleet or squadron is supplied with pro visions and 
stores. 

30.. While in a port of the United States he will not allow any 
passengers to be received on board the vessels under his command, 
without the authority of the Secretary of the Navy. 

31.. Should he find it necessary to assume the immediate com- 
mand of the ship which bears his flag, he will have the fact stated 
in the log-book. 

32.. He is to satisfy himself that the laws and regulations of the 
navy are maintained on board every vessel under his command, and 
also that all the special orders through the different bureaus of the 
Navy Department are strictly observed. 

33. .He may remove his flag to any vessel under his command. 

34 . . He will report to the Secretary of the Navy his reasons for 
so changing his flag-ship. 

35 . .He may designate the officer to command the vessel to which 
he removes his flag. 

36 . .He will see that all vessels under his command are frequently 
practiced in exercising together in port, and in performing maneu- 
vers at sea. The time taken by each vessel will be duly noted. 

3 7.. He will also frequently exercise the vessels under his com- 
mand in making night and day signals, so as to insure accuracy in 
thus transmitting orders. 

38 . . When his fleet or squadron is ready for sea he will place it in 
the proper order of sailing. 



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Duties of Commander-in-Chief. 



3 9 ..He will direct the course to "be steered by the fleet or squad- 
ron when at sea. 

40.. He will direct whether the batteries shall be loaded on pro- 
ceeding to sea. 

41.. He will investigate, particularly, the circumstances under 
which any of the vessels of his command may get out of line, or 
may separate from his company. 

42.. He will make himself well acquainted with the sailing and 
steaming qualities of the vessels under his command, and will also 
inform himself of the quantity of coal each vessel can carry, the 
amount used in average and in full steaming, during twenty-four 
hours. 

43.. When he is about to anchor in a roadstead, or off a coast, he 
will signalize beforehand to the vessels under his command the po- 
sition they are to take, how many anchors to let go, and how many 
fathoms of chain to veer out. 

44 . . On arriving in a foreign port he is immediately to put him- 
self in communication with the consular or diplomatic agent of the 
United States. 

45.. He will call in person, and pay the first visit to diplomatic 
functionaries of the United States whose rank is of and above that 
of charge d'affaires. 

46 . .He will inform himself, through the minister or consul, of the 
salutes and ceremonies usually observed, and govern himself accord- 
ingly. 

4 7.. He will pay all proper respect to the civil and naval authori- 
ties of the place, and he will make them the first visit, if the usual 
offer of civilities has been extended to him. 

4 8.. In the absence of a consular or diplomatic functionary, he 
will send an officer of his staff to call upon the local authorities to 
ascertain the custom of the place as to interchange of courtesies. 

49 . . In saluting a place he will hoist its national ensign at the 
fore, and will be assured that gun for gun will be given in return. 

50 . . In countries having treaty stipulations with the United States 
in regard to salutes, he will conform strictly thereto. 

51.. When he shall absent himself from his command in a foreign 
port, to remain away more than twenty-four hours, his flag shall be 
kept flying on board the flag-ship, if either her Captain or the Chief- 



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of- Staff be next in rank ; but if otherwise, it shall be hoisted, for the 
time being, on board the ship whose Commanding Officer is next in 
rank to himself. 

5 2.. He will preserve, so far as in Mm lies, the best feeling and 
the most cordial relations with the ministers and consuls of the 
United States on foreign stations, and will extend to them every 
official courtesy. He will also duly consider such information as 
they may have to give him relating to the interests of the United 
States, but he will not receive orders from such sources, and he will 
be responsible to the Secretary of the Navy, in the first place, for 
his acts. 

5 3.. He will not take upon himself the power of inflicting pun- 
ishment upon the people of any civilized nation with whom we have 
treaties, for any violation, alleged or otherwise, of such treaties or 
of international law. 

54.. In the absence of a diplomatic representative of the United 
States, he will enter into correspondence on matters of this kind 
with the authorities of the nation which may be suj)posed to have 
been the aggressor, and will take the earliest opportunity to com- 
municate all the information in his possession to the government 
of the United States. 

5 5.. He will do his utmost on all occasions to protect the com- 
merce of the United States. 

56.. He may draw up such regulations as he may deem neces- 
sary for the preservation of health and of good order, on board 
the vessels under his command. He will forward a copy of these 
regulations to the Secretary of the Navy, by the earliest oppor- 
tunity. 

5 7.. He will not retain either officers or crews upon a foreign 
station longer than the limit of a cruise, if it can possibly be avoided. 

58. .He will require the strictest economy to be observed in the 
expenditure and consumption of stores of all kinds, and he will 
avoid purchasing stores in foreign countries, unless it may be indis- 
pensably necessary to do so. 

5 9.. He will make every effort to support the fleet or squadron 
under his command on the supplies furnished by the government, 
and he will require the proper officers in the different departments 
to keep him informed in regard to stores on hand, in due season, so 



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Duties of Commander-in-Chief. 



that lie may take measures to procure supplies at points where gov- 
ernment stores can be obtained. 

60 . . He will not allow any stores to be disposed of. except by 
proper survey, nor will lie permit any stores or munitions of war to 
be sent home, unless by his own order. 

61. -He will require the utmost economy in the consumption of 
fuel in steaming, by the vessels under his command, and he will not 
permit any duty to be performed under steam which can be accom- 
plished under sail alone. 

62 . . If he finds it necessary to charter a vessel to take home sick 
persons, or to carry provisions, or for other purposes, he will have 
a charter-party drawn up, which shall contain all the agreements 
between the contracting parties. He will retain one copy thereof, 
one copy will go to the master of the chartered vessel, and the third 
will be forwarded to the Navy Department. 

63.. When sick or disabled officers or men are to be sent home in 
a store-ship, or in a vessel chartered for the purpose, he shall order 
a board of medical officers to examine the vessel, to ascertain if 
everything necessary for the comfort of the invalids has been pro- 
vided, and to report in writing, stating deficiencies, if any, and 
whence arising. 

64 . . He shall not permit such vessel to sail until every possible 
provision for the comfort of the invalids has been made, and if. 
necessary shall detail additional medical officers from the vessels of 
his fleet or squadron to accompany them. 

65 . . All requisitions must receive his approval before purchases 
are made, unless in the case of vessels separated from him, so as to 
render this rule impracticable ; in such cases, the requisitions must 
be approved by the senior officer present, and copies forwarded 
to the Commander-in-Chief by the first opportunity, accompanied 
with a statement of the reasons for the purchases so made. 

66.. In his presence, in ports where there is no regular agent of 
the United States, he will direct the paymaster of the fleet to make 
all necessary purchases on the most advantageous terms. The arti- 
cles shall be selected by the officer in charge of the department 
for which they are required, who shall furnish to his Commanding 
Officer a certificate of the market value of each article by the quan- 
tity, or in detail, as the case may be, 



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6 7.. He may send to the United States any officer under his com- 
mand who shall be guilty of acts not susceptible of trial by a court- 
martial. He will furnish the Department with his reasons for so 
doing, and will direct the officer not to delay on his way. 

68 . . When it is not practicable to try an officer or other person at 
the time an offense is committed, he will take all proper precautions 
that the ends of justice may be satisfied, and that the offender may 
be forthcoming when a court-martial can be convened. 

69.. He shall inspect the vessels under his command, at such 
times as he may think proper, but never less than once in six 
months. He will satisfy himself that the vessels of his fleet or 
squadron are in a state of complete efficiency to perform all the 
service that may be required of them. 

70 . . He shall not delegate his authority in these inspections to 
any other officer, except in case of inability to attend himself, from 
sickness or other causes ; in which event he will direct the officer 
next in rank to himself to perform them. 

71.. In making his insiDections he will be accompanied by his 
Chief-of-Staff and such others of his staff as he may select, and will 
cause accurate minutes to be taken of the proceedings. 

72.. He shall also have all hospitals and hospital-ships under 
his command frequently inspected; he will require daily reports 
from the Medical Officers in charge of such hospitals, and he is to re- 
quire every attention to be paid to the care and comfort of the sick. 

73 . . He shall cause the boats of his fleet or squadron, manned and 
armed, to be frequently assembled, inspected and exercised in ma- 
neuvers in landing and embarking, and in boarding vessels. 

74. -He shall require every Commanding Officer in his fleet or 
squadron to expend the amount of ammunition authorized, unless 
the supjdy should run too short, or some other reason prevent the full 
expenditure, in which case he will promptly report the circumstances 
to the Secretary of the Navy. 

75.. When preparing his fleet or squadron for sea, in time of war, 
as the vessels join him, he shall furnish each Commanding Officer 
with a copy of all general orders, dispositions, private signals, orders 
of battle, &c, &c, so that his Captains may have a complete un- 
derstanding of what they will be called upon to do on going into 
action. 



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Duties of Commander-in-Chief. 

76.. He shall assure himself, by personal inspection, that all the 
vessels under his command have been fitted out in conformity with 
the orders and regulations of the Navy Department, and that every 
Commanding Officer understands the duties he will be required to 
perform. 

7 7 ..If the Secretary of the Navy does not reserve to himself the 
right of designation, he will himself select the vessels, to which the 
several Flag Officers serving under him shall be assigned. 

78 . . He will divide his ships into divisions and squadrons, and 
will assign the officers to command them according to rank. 

79 ..When his fleet or squadron is lying in a harbor or roadstead 
in time of war, he shall keep light armed and fast steamers off the 
coast to report the approach of an enemy, and he will take every 
other precaution to prevent his being attacked unawares. 

80 ..When an enemy is off the coast, or when he is liable to be 
attacked, he shall keep his vessels in readiness to move under steam 
at a moment's notice. 

81 . - He shall then keep the pilots on board, and allow no one to 
leave his ship, except by his own special permission. 

82 ..He shall cause the watchword for the day and night to be 
delivered daily to the commanding officer of each vessel. 

83 . .He shall cause the proper guard boats and steam watch boats 
to be stationed immediately after sunset, and have every precaution 
taken against attempts to destroy his vessels by torpedoes. 

84 ..While lying in the roads or harbors of the United States, he 
is to maintain a complete concert of action between himself and the 
military commander on shore, and in case of an attack on the latter, 
he will render such assistance as may be in his power to repel the 
enemy, and will afford aid in any way by which the naval forces can 
be made available. 

85 . . When in presence of an enemy, with a likelihood of an action 
being brought on, he is to order the guns to be cast loose, and one 
watch kept at quarters night and day. 

86 ..On going into action at night, he is to hoist a signal lantern 
over the ensign at the peak. 

87 ..He should have the best understanding between himself and 
his second in command before going into action, and should in- 
form the latter of all his plans, secret orders, and private signals ; 



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he should also so inform Ms Chief-of-Staff and the Cax>tain of the 
flag-ship. 

88 . . He shall, if possible, on going into action, furnish to each Com- 
manding Officer a plan of the battle. 

89.. He shall assign to each Commanding Officer the position his 
ship is to take in the different divisions ; and Divisional Commanders 
are not to alter this disposition, unless it may become necessary in 
the heat of battle, when signals cannot be seen on account of smoke 
nor messages sent to Commander-in-Chief. 

90 . . If, during an engagement, with a prospect of defeat, any of 
the vessels of his command become so disabled that they cannot keep 
up with the squadron, and are in danger of falling into the hands of 
the enemy, he will have them taken in tow, if it be possible to save 
them ; otherwise, he will have their crews removed and the vessels 
destroyed. 

91 . . He is to be attentive when in battle to observe the conduct 
of those under his command, and will give due praise to all who 
deserve it. 

92 . . After an engagement, he is to require the Commanding Officers 
of divisions and of vessels to forward him their reports, and those of 
Executive Officers, of every event which occurred during the action, 
and of the service performed by their respective vessels ; in these 
reports due commendation is to be awarded to every one whose good 
conduct during battle may have entitled him to such honorable 
mention. 

93. -He is himself to make a report to the Secretary of the Navy, 
after every engagement, of all its particulars and of every occurrence 
in the conduct of his subordinates. 

94 . . During wars to which the United States is not a party, he shall 
himself observe the strictest neutrality between the belligerents, and 
shall require every one under his command to practise the like ob- 
servance. 

95.. He shall comply with the laws of blockade, when a harbor 
or port is blockaded by a nation with whom the United States is at 
peace, and will require the like compliance by all under his com- 
mand. 

9 6 ..He shall at the same time make every effort to protect the 
lives and property of citizens of the United States within the lines 



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of the belligerents, and will so instruct the Commanding Officers of 
his fleet or squadron. 

9 7.. When the United States shall be engaged in war, he is to 
require all the laws of neutrality to be strictly observed by every 
one under his command. 

98.. During war, when opportunities offer, he may afford convoy 
and protection to merchant vessels of the United States, and also to 
merchantmen of nations which may be in alliance with the United 
States. 

99.. When troops are to be embarked on board the vessels of his 
fleet or squadron, he will draw u}3 such regulatious as may be neces- 
sary to preserve their health, and to maintain discipline while they 
are on board; and he will direct that they shall be furnished with 
the best accommodations that circumstances will permit. 

100 . . If the Commanding Officer of the troops should be senior in 
rank to himself, he shall call upon him upon his arrival ; and if other- 
wise, he shall send an officer of his staff to make the call, and he 
will await the first visit. 

101 ..He is to require reports from Commanding Officers, ad- 
dressed to the Department, of every important service performed 
by the ships under their command, accompanied by diagrams, in all 
cases in which they are applicable, showing every particular which 
may tend to give clear information concerning, the event. 

102 . .He shall forward to the Department, by the first opportunity, 
the reports and diagrams mentioned above, and retain copies of 
them for future use or reference. 

103.. He shall issue general orders regulating the extent of leave 
of absence which may be granted to officers and men to visit the 
shore when in squadron, by the Commanding Officers of vessels ; 
but no officer will be allowed to be absent on leave from the vessel 
to which he belongs, when in squadron, more than twenty-four 
hours, without the written permission or authority of the Command- 
er-in-Chief. 

104 ..He shall correspond regularly with the Secretary of the 
Navy, keeping him informed of his proceedings and of the state, 
condition, and probable wants of the vessels under his command, 
and of all other important information within his knowledge rela- 



NAYY OF THE UNITED STATES. 13 

Duties of Commander-in-Chief. 

tive to the service on which he may be employed, or to any foreign 
naval force employed npon the station or in its vicinity. 

105. .He shall forward to the Secretary of the Navy monthly re- 
turns of the condition, distribution, and employment of the vessels 
of the squadron. 

106. -He is to examine and carefully compare all orders for gen- 
eral police which may be prepared by the Commanders of vessels, 
and modify them, when necessary, to secure uniformity in executing 
the duties of the fleet or squadron. 

107. -He is to forward to the Navy Department any suggestions 
or plans for the improvement of public works in navy yards, or in 
the construction, equipment or arrangement of vessels of war, or 
upon any subject connected with the Navy which he may deem im- 
portant to the interests of the United States, accompanying the 
same with plans and estimates of their cost, when practicable. 

108- -He shall cause a quarterly inspection to be made by some 
competent person of the steam machinery and boilers of the steam 
vessels under his command, and shall require from him a report in 
duplicate, one of which reports shall be forwarded to the Navy De- 
partment, and the other shall be retained by himself for future ref- 
erence. No proposed alterations or additions to the machinery are 
to be included in the list of defects ; on those j)oints special reports 
must be made, stating their probable cost and the time necessary 
for their execution. Should it occur that the inspection of any ves- 
sel cannot be made as often as once in a quarter, he must report the 
fact and the circumstances rendering it impossible. 

109. -He shall not resign his command without the previous con- 
sent of the Secretary of the Navy, unless a medical survey shall 
certify that the state of his health renders it absolutely necessary. 

110. -Should he die, or leave his station permanently from any 
cause, before being relieved by a successor appointed by the Navy 
Department, the officer of the fleet or squadron then succeeding in 
order to the command shall exercise the powers and authority of 
Commander-in-Chief until otherwise directed by the Secretary of 
the Navy. Any officer who shall have succeeded to the command- 
in-chief, as just mentioned, shall discontinue to exercise the powers 
and authority thereof immediately on receiving official information 
of the arrival, within the limits of the station, of the officer duly 



14 [REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Commanders of Squadrons under a Commander-in-Chief, etc. 

appointed Commander-in-Chief of the fleet or squadron, without 
waiting either to meet with or to receive an order directly from 
such officer. 

111. .On giving up his command, he is to turn over to his suc- 
cessor a copy of all correspondence interchanged with the Navy De- 
partraent or foreign authorities, together with any other documents 
which may concern the station or naval force under his command, 
or which may "be of interest to the service, and also of all orders 
which he may have issued from time to time, for the guidance of 
vessels under his command. 

112. .He will also transmit to the Secretary of the Navy a list of 
all the numbers of his correspondence with the Department, and 
shall furnish duplicates of all such as the Secretary shall inform him 
have not been received. 

113. -He is not to leave his station or command until he is satis- 
fied that all the regulations of the Navy relating to the transfer of 
vessels, munitions of war, &c, are complied with. 

COMMANDERS OF SQUADRONS UNDER A COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF AND 
COMMANDERS OF DIVISIONS. 

114 ..Whenever a fleet may be organized into squadrons, or 
squadrons and divisions, their respective Commanders will be re- 
sponsible to the Commander-in-Chief for the efficiency, discipline, 
and management of the vessels composing their squadrons or 
divisions. 

115 .-All reports, returns, and requisitions will be forwarded in 
accordance with the routine prescribed in the article on "Corre- 
spondence. 17 

116. -In preparing their commands for sea, Commanding Officers 
of squadrons or of divisions have authority to make out and sign 
requisitions on a Commander of a navy yard, station, or Chief of a 
Bureau, independently of the Commander-in-Chief. 

117- -Commanders of squadrons and divisions shall inspect the 
vessels under their command as often as once in a quarter ; and they 
will make written reports to the Commander-in-Chief of their effi- 
ciency, discipline, and preparation for battle. 



NAYY OF THE UNITED STATES.. 15 

Commanders of Squadrons under a Commander-in-Chief; etc. 

118. . Commanding Officers of squadrons or divisions will regu- 
late, by signals, vessels belonging to their divisions. 

119.. A Commanding Officer of a squadron or division will cor- 
rect any mistake committed by a vessel of any other squadron or 
division, if it is probable that the error cannot be seen by the Com- 
mander of that division or squadron. 

120.. In presence of the enemy general signals are only to be 
made by the Commander-in-Chief, but they are to be repeated to 
squadrons or divisions by their Commanding Officers. 

121. .If a Commander of a squadron or division should, during 
battle, perceive any vessel of a squadron or division commanded by 
an officer inferior or junior to himself, evidently avoiding battle, or 
not doing his duty, he shall make proper signals to him, or take such 
other measures as the case may require, and give the earliest inform- 
ation of his proceedings to the Commander-in-Chief, and to the Com- 
mander of the squadron or division to which the vessel may belong, 

122. .If, during an action, the vessel of a Commander of a squad- 
ron or division should be entirely disabled and incapable of making 
signals, he must change his flag to an active vessel. 

123. -Under no other circumstances can he change his vessel 
without the authority of the Commander-in-Chief. 

124. -If, during an engagement, the Mst order of battle pre- 
scribed, should be broken, and the vessels of the Commander-in- 
Chief should be in danger and unable to make signals, every Com- 
manding Officer of a squadron or division should use his own dis- 
cretion, and send all the help he can spare to relieve his superior 
officer from jeopardy. 

125. -If, by any event whatever, the Commanding Officer of a 
squadron or division becomes separated from the Commander-in- 
Chief, he will take command of all vessels in his company, and out 
of sight of the Commander-in-Chief. 

126. -He will direct the said vessels to range themselves in order 
under his flag, and will make every effort to join the Commander- 
in-Chief without delay. 

127. .When an officer commanding a squadron or division is thus 
separated, he will call for a statement of events from the Command- 
ing Officers of the vessels in his company, and submit it to the 
Commander-in-Chief without delay. 



16 . REGULATIONS OF THE 

CMef-of'Staff. 

128.-K a Commanding Officer of a squadron or division should 
be killed in action, his distinguishing flag will continue aloft on 
hoard his vessel until the enemy is out of sight. 

129.. After battle commanders of squadrons and of divisions will 
forward to the Commander-in-Chief the reports of the officers com- 
manding vessels, required by paragraph 92, accompanied by full re- 
marks of their own, 

CHIEF OF STAFF. 

130. .A Chief-of-Staff should be selected for his known ability to 
conduct all the administrative duties of his office. 

131., -He should be fully competent to maneuver a fleet, and form 
orders of battle in all their detail, and be prepared to take on him- 
self, in time of engagement, the command of the fleet in case of the 
death of the Commander-in-Chief. 

132 ..He is to assist the Commander-in-Chief in the various de- 
tails and arrangements for the management of the fleet or squadron, 
and for maintaining it in the most efficient condition, and to this 
end he is to be embarked on board the same vessel with the Com- 
mander-in-Chief, and subject only to his orders. 

133.. He will preserve the correspondence of the Commander-in- 
Chief, and will keep an historical journal of the operations of the 
fleet. This journal will be very full in all its details, so that it may 
aid the Commander-in-Chief in making out his dispatches. 

134 -~ He shall also keep a register of all orders issued by the 
Commander-in-Chief or by his authority, and of all signals that 
may be made in the fleet or squadron, noting the day and hour when 
the former were received or transmitted, and when the latter were 
made. (See forms No. 5 and 6, appendix.) 

135. -He shall take care when officers are called on board to re- 
ceive verbal orders, that they note in an order-book, which they must 
bring for that purpose, the substance of the order given. 

136. -He will immediately report to the Commander-in-Chief any 
neglect or disobedience of the orders of the Commander-in-Chief. 

137. .Whatever orders he may give to officers junior to himself, 
lie will report without delay to the Commander-in-Chief. 

138.. He will make out all orders of the day, such as detailing 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 17 

Chief of Staff. 

look-ont vessels, guard-ships, inspections, exercises, or other duties 
assigned by the Commander-in-Chief. 

139. .He will receive the pass- word daily from the Commander- 
in-Chief, and issue it to the vessels of the fleet. 

140. -He will have under his direct orders all the officers compos- 
ing the general staff, whose duties he will regulate according to the 
orders of the Commander-in-Chief. 

141. -His supervision also extends over all officers composing the 
staffs of squadron or division commanders, 

142. -He will have control of the signal corps of the fleet. 

143. -He will see that the signal-books are properly cared for and 
correctly kept, and that all vessels of the fleet or squadron are pre- 
pared with a uniform system of signals for night and day. 

144. -He will keep a register of the names of all officers of the 
fleet or squadron, and of the general staff. 

145. -He shall always be ready to give the Commander-in-Chief a 
statement of the stores, provisions and munitions of war on board 
vessels of the fleet, and the amounts on hand in store-ships. 

146. -He should also be prepared to inform the Commander-in- 
Chief in relation to the personnel of the fleet. 

147. .In order to expedite the administrative duties of a fleet or 
squadron, the following reports, returns, &c, will be transmitted 
by Commanding Officers to the. Commander-in-Chief, through the 
Chief-of-Staff, who, after examining and indorsing them with such 
remarks as may appear to him expedient, will place them before the 
Commander-in-Chief for his information, and, if necessary, for his 
action and decision : Eeports of state and condition of ship ; reports of 
defects ; applications for refitting or repairs ; requisitions for money, 
stores or provisions ; all periodical returns ; applications for leave, 
transfer or discharge ; applications for surveys ; and, in general, all 
reports connected with the equipment and efficiency of the vessels. 
All reports of the operation of their commands, the execution of 
their orders, or of the discipline of their vessels, Commanding Offi- 
cers will transmit direct to the Commander-in-Chief. 

148- -When the Commander-in-Chief convenes the Commanding 
Officers of divisions for the discussion of projects relating to the 
operations of the fleet, the Chief-of-Staff will be present, and will 
act as recorder, keeping correct minutes of the proceedings. 
2 NK 



18 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Personal Staff Officers — Officers Commanding Vessels. 

149. -In all important ceremonies he will take charge in the name 
of the Commander-in-Chief, and will see that they are conducted 
according to regulations . 

150. .In time of battle his station is at the side of the Comman- 
der-in-Chief, whom he is to assist with all his knowledge and ability 
in maneuvering the fleet or squadron in presence of the enemy or in 
going into action. 

151. -He will have immediate superintendence of all signals made 
during battle, and will keep a register of them. 

152. -He will be responsible that the minutes of the action are 
correctly kept. 

153. -At the death of a Commander-in-Chief, or of a Command- 
ing Officer of a squadron or division, the officers composing the staff 
of either will cease to exercise their duties, unless confirmed by the 
new Commander-in-Chief, or of squadron or division. 

154. . Chiefs-of-Staff of divisions or squadrons have duties similar 
to those of the Chief-of-Staff to Commanders-in-Chief. 

PERSONAL STAFF OFFICER S. 

155 . -All officers attached to the personal staff of the Commander- 
in-Chief are under the immediate direction of the Chief-of-Staff. 

156. -They will act as aids to the Commander-in-Chief at such 
times as he may require their services. 

157. -The Commander-in-Chief can assign to them the duties of 
Secretaries. 

OFFICERS COMMANDING VESSELS. 

* 

158 ..When an officer shall be appointed to the command of a 
vessel, he shall join her forthwith, unless a particular day be desig- 
nated for him to do so by the appointing authority ; and on joining 
her, he is to examine and ascertain her state and condition, and in- 
form himself of the character and qualifications of the officers 
placed under his command. 

159. -If the vessel be still under the charge of the Commanding 
Officer of the navy yard, he will be attentive to her repair and equip- 
ment, and report to such Commanding Officer any defects or defi- 
ciencies which, in his opinion, require further attention. He will 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 19 

Officers Commanding Vessels. 

be particular in his examinations and reports at trie time when it 
may be proposed to transfer trie vessel entirely to bis charge, so as 
to prevent any subsequent complaints in relation to neglects or defi- 
ciencies in the repairs or equipments. 

160. .He will exercise no authority or control over the repairs or 
equipments of the vessel before she is delivered into his charge, nor 
over the officers and mechanics of the navy yard, unless with the 
assent or direction of the Commanding Officer of the yard. 

161. .When appointed to the command of a vessel, he shall be 
furnished with a statement of her condition, and her presumed or 
ascertained qualities, by the Commandant of the navy yard, or by 
the previous Commander, if the vessel be already in commission ; 
and with drawings and plans showing the dimensions of the ship, 
arrangements and stowage of the holds, store-rooms, magazines, 
shell-rooms, shot-lockers, &c. 

162. .When a vessel is transferred by the Commanding Officer of 
a navy yard to him for service, he shall use every exertion to com- 
plete the arrangements that may be necessary for her efficient em- 
ployment at sea, and shall report weekly to the Commandant of the 
navy yard her condition, and any deficiency of officers or men, for 
the information of the Department. 

163. -After assuming the command, he will be held responsible 
for the whole conduct and good government of the officers and oth- 
ers belonging to the vessel, according to the laws and regulations 
for the government of the Navy. 

164. -He will issue all his general orders through the Executive 
Officer of the ship. 

165. -If, when a crew is sent on board a ship, the Commanding 
Officer has reason to think that he has been supplied with an infe- 
rior set of men, he will make a report to the Commandant of the 
navy yard, and request a survey upon them. 

166. -When a ship shall have been put in commission, a general 
muster of the officers and crew shall be had for the purpose of ver- 
ifying the descriptive lists, of ascertaining that the name of every 
man is correctly registered, and that every one has the exact uni- 
form dress prescribed by regulations. The Executive Officer, Sur- 
geon, and Paymaster, shall be present at such muster, and any dis- 
crepancy in the descriptive lists, or error in the transfer roll, shall 



20 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Officers Commanding Vessels. 

be then corrected, and a certificate of such correction, approved by 
the Commanding Officer, shall be transmitted by him to the Depart- 
ment, to the rendezvous where the man was shipped, and the re- 
ceiving ship from which he was transferred. On the receipt of such 
certificate, the necessary corrections will be made, 

167. -He will see that a note is made upon all accounts, transfer 
and descriptive lists, and on all shipping articles, and enlistment 
returns, against the name of every person who may come under the 
seventh section of the act approved February 24, 1864, for enrolling 
and calling out the national forces. 

168. He shall not exceed the number of men allowed in any 
rating, except to make up for a deficiency in some superior rating, 
or by the express authority of the Secretary of the Navy, or the 
Commander-in-Chief of a squadron on foreign service. 

169 ..Should he deem it necessary to issue other orders for the 
general police of the vessel than those contained in the Laws and 
Regulations of the Navy, he will prepare such and submit them to 
the Department, or to the Commander-in-Chief if serving in a 
squadron, for approval or modification. 

170. .He will not sail from a port in the United States until his 
men are stationed in getting under way, coming to anchor, mooring 
and unmooring ship, reefing topsails, getting in and out boats, tack- 
ing and wearing, and, also, at the guns, according to the ordnance 
instructions. 

171. -Before proceeding to sea, the Commanding Officer is, if pos- 
sible, to take an opportunity to exercise his men at different evolu- 
tions, and practice them at target firing. 

172 ..He shall cause the quarter, watch, fire, and other station 
bills, to be fairly made out and hung in some conspicuous place, 
where all persons on board may have access to them. 

173 -.In all matters connected with the preparations of his vessel 
for battle, and the exercise of his crew at quarters, he shall follow 
carefully such instructions as have been or may be issued by the 
Bureau of Ordnance, and approved by the Secretary of the Navy. 

174 . -He shall require each of the Masters, Ensigns, and Midship- 
men, belonging to the vessel to procure a good sextant or octant, 
and some approved work containing the usual tables for ascertain- 
ing the ship's place from observations for latitude and longitude. 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 21 

Officers Commanding Vessels. 

175.. He will superintend, personally, through, the executive 
officer, all important evolutions performed by his vessel. 

176.. He will have morning and evening inspections at quarters, 
when the condition, readiness, and security of the battery will be 
carefully examined into, and the dress and personal appearance of 
the crew looked to. At the a. m. inspection the detail of division 
exercise will be made. 

177. -He will require one division to be exercised every day, and 
the whole crew at general quarters once a week, or oftener, if prac- 
ticable, until they are thoroughly drilled. 

178 ..He will designate the number of rockets and the quantity 
of powder to be kept out of the magazine for the purpose of making 
signals. 

179.. He will require the executive officer to have particular ex- 
amination made daily of cooking utensils and galley, and also of 
the mess-chests and mess utensils of the crew. 

180 . . He will require certain petty officers to be present at all 
times when provisions are served out to the crew. 

181 ..He will require the executive officer to report to him daily, 
at ten a. m., the readiness of the vessel for inspection in all the de- 
partments, and he will himself make very frequent inspection of 
her condition throughout. 

182 . . He will require the surgeon to send to him a sick-list of 
officers and men every morning by ten o J clock. 

183- -He will, before leaving port, or as soon thereafter as prac- 
ticable, send to the Bureau of Navigation, a report containing the 
compass corrections, due to local attraction, which have been dis- 
covered by swinging his ship ; and thereafter similar reports will 
be forwarded whenever he may deem it necessary to swing his ves- 
sel for the same object. 

184 ..Before sailing from the United States he will have all 
the spare articles on board examined, and he will have the spare 
masts, sails, tiller, and such other spare objects put temporarily in 
their places, to see if they will fit or otherwise suit the purpose for 
which they are intended. 

185 . . If the boats are stowed on board his vessel he will have 
them all hoisted into the water to see if they leak, and he will have 
the boat howitzers mounted to see if they are properly fitted. 



22 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Officers Commanding Vessels. 

186. -He will not permit any change or modification of the uni- 
form of officers and crew as prescribed by the navy regulations. 

18 7.. Before sailing he will require the head of every department 
on board his ship to report to him in writing whether his depart- 
ment has been supplied with everything necessary, according to the 
regulations of the Navy. 

188 . . Before sailing he must make a written report to the Navy 
Department, stating the exact condition of his vessel, and whetjier 
her outfit is satisfactory or otherwise. 

189- .He will impress upon the men under his command the im- 
portance of providing, by allotment tickets, for their families during 
their absence from them, and will see that the tickets of those who 
avail themselves of the privilege are duly forwarded, as provided 
for in the article of allotments. 

190 . . He will not permit his executive officer and the line officer 
next in rank to be out of the ship at the same time. 

191. -He will always require a sufficient number of officers to be 
on board his vessel, so that the watches shall be kept by the proper 
watch officers. 

192- -He is required, where there are two medical officers under 
his command, always to keep one of them on board his vessel. 

193- -He will not permit the watches kept by his officers to be 
extended to more than five, and he will regulate the meal hours on 
board so as not to interfere with ship's duty. 

194. -When a ship is in port for several days he will require the 
officers to keep day's duty instead of sea watches. 

195. -The officer of the deck will be designated by his carrying a 
small spy-glass. 

19 6 ..When it can be done, without detriment to the service, the 
commanding officer of a vessel will divide his crew into three 
watches. 

197. -He is to pay the greatest attention to the health of the 
crew and the cleanliness of the vessel. 

198. -He will direct his officers to look after the health of the 
men, and not submit them to unnecessary exposure, either to the 
sun by day or the dews by night. 

199. .He will promote all amusements that tend to make the 
men happy, and do all in his power to render the service popular. 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 23 

Officers Commanding Vessels. 

200. -He will not sail from a port of the United States with pas- 
sengers on hoard, without the permission of the Secretary of the 
Navy, and when abroad, he will not receive passengers on hoard, in 
the presence of a superior officer, without his permission. 

201 ..He will procure from the Navy Department copies of all 
lately issued circulars and general orders that do not appear in the 
book of regulations before he sails on a cruise. 

202 ..He will require the surgeon of his ship to procure a clean 
bill of health when requisite, before proceeding to sea. 

203. -If, after getting to sea, any persons not belonging to the 
vessel are discovered on board who are there without authority, it 
will be the duty of the commanding officer to send them back in the 
pilot boat. 

204. -For the purpose of ascertaining that no unauthorized per- 
sons are on board, he will, if possible, have a muster of his crew, 
before dismissing the pilot. 

205 ..Always when under way, and when necessary, while at 
anchor, he will have look-outs stationed aloft during the day, and 
during the night there will be, as a general rule, one look-out on 
each cat-head, one in each waist, and one on each quarter. 

206. -He will not make signal to any vessel in the squadron with- 
out the permission of the Commander-in-Chief, except to repeat a 
signal made by the latter to a vessel that may not see it, nor will 
he make a signal of recognition to a strange vessel without orders 
from the Commander-in-Chief. 

207. -He will not perform any independent movement without 
special orders from the Commander-in-Chief. 

208 . . He will report immediately to the Commander-in-Chief, by 
signal or otherwise, the appearance of any strange sail or danger 
ahead. 

209 . . On approaching a foreign man-of-war, or being approached 
by one at sea, or elsewhere, under suspicious circumstances, he is to 
have his crew at quarters ready for battle, and he is to preserve 
this disposition until he ascertains the intentions of the foreign 
vessel. 

210 ..If he entertains any doubts about the continuation of peace 
between the United States and any other country, he will guard 
against surprises by an enemy. 



24 REGULATIONS FOE. THE 

Officers Commanding Vessels. 

2 11.. Commanders of public vessels of war are not to suffer their 
vessels to be searched by any foreign power under any pretext, nor 
any officers nor men to be taken out so long as they have power of 
resistance. If force be used, resistance must be continued as long- 
as possible. If overcome, they are to yield their vessel, but not 
their men without the vessel. 

2 12.. A Commanding Officer will be held responsible for the safe 
conducting and steering of his vessel. 

2 13.. He will always take a pilot when the navigation is doubt- 
ful, if one can be procured ; but he is not to give up the command 
of his ship, or allow the pilot to run her into what he may consider 
a position of danger. 

214.. On entering a port where there is a senior officer, or in 
meeting United States vessels at sea, a Commanding Officer will, as 
soon as he can make the vessel out, hoist his distinguishing num- 
ber, or at night show his night number. 

215.. The Commanding Officers of vessels falling in with each 
other are, whenever practicable, to compare signal books, general 
orders, and circulars, in order to possess themselves of any changes 
or alterations that have been made, and of information to the latest 
date. They will suggest to the Department any necessary signal or 
word not to be found in the books. 

216. -Immediately on arriving in jjort, the Commander of a ves- 
sel is to submit to the Commander-in-Chief, or to the senior officer 
present, requisitions in triplicate for deficiencies on board the vessel 
under his command ; but he is to be particularly careful that every 
article embraced is really needed, and that the quantity mentioned 
is not excessive. 

217. . On arriving in port, or at a navy yard or station, to be re- 
fitted or repaired, the Commander of a vessel is not to permit the 
stores belonging to any department of her to be landed without 
previous authority from the senior officer present. In the United 
States this authority is not to be granted without the sanction of 
the Navy Department. 

218. .A Commanding Officer of a vessel entering port where there 
is a senior officer must make signal to the latter for permission to 
anchor, and will not communicate with the shore without the per- 
mission of the said senior officer. 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 25 

Officers Commanding Vessels, 

2 19.. If lie has entered the port under steam, he will not extin- 
guish his fires until he has permission to do so. 

220.. It is the duty of a Commanding Officer to pay an official 
visit to the Commander of the station the moment he arrives in 
port if said Commander is his superior officer ; otherwise, he will 
send an officer to communicate with him. 

221.. He will not permit any irregularities on the part of his offi- 
cers or crew, while in a foreign port, the occurrence of which might 
give just cause of offence to the inhabitants of the place ; and he 
will himself observe, and cause all under his command to observe, 
the sanitary and other laws and regulations of the port. 

222.. In cruising in the torrid zone, he may engage the natives 
to attend the ship, and carry provisions and water, if it should be 
advisable to do so, in order to preserve the health of the crew. 

22 3 ..On entering a port he will regulate the hours when the 
boats shall leave the ship to convey the officers to the shore, and 
also the hours when officers are to come on board at night. 
. 224.. He will not permit more than half of his officers and crew 
to be out of the ship on any occasion, nor will he allow more than 
a quarter watch, or one fourth of the crew, to be out of the ship all 
night, at any time. 

225 . . When he permits his crew to go on shore on liberty, he will 
cause them to wear their proper uniform, and to leave their knives 
on board. He will have boats at the landing place on the expira- 
tion of their leave, to take them off to the ship. 

226. .He shall cause some competent person among the Petty Offi- 
cers, or persons of inferior rating, to instruct the boys of the ship in 
reading, writing, and arithmetic. 

2 2 7.. He shall cause the ordinary seamen, landsmen, and boys, to 
be instructed in steering, heaving the lead, knotting and splicing, in 
rowing, in the use of the palm and needle, and generally in other 
duties, such as bending and reefing sails, &c, that they may become 
qualified for rating of seamen and Petty Officers. 

2 28.. He shall have a liberty book kept, in which shall be re- 
corded the names of such of the crew as may have been granted 
liberty on shore, specifying the length of leave, the time of the re- 
turn, and the condition and conduct of each man on his return to 
the ship. 



26 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Officers Commanding Vessels. 

229.. He will cause a conduct book to be kept by the Executive 
Officer, in which the names of all Petty Officers and persons of in- 
ferior rating shall be entered, with remarks from time to time on 
the conduct of each, and a record made of any fact or circumstance 
that may aid him in preparing proper discharges at the end of the 
cruise. 

230.. He may, at his discretion, require the Line Officers under 
his command to make frequent observations and calculations for de- 
termining the latitude and longitude, and the variation of the com- 
pass, and report the results to him, and he will encourage the 
officers under his command to improve themselves in every branch 
of nautical science. 

231. -He is to have kept a register of all punishments inflicted on 
his crew, which he will transmit quarterly to the Department. 

232.. He will be careful that no person belonging to the crew of 
the vessel under his command is punished in violation of law, and 
that no cruelty is practiced in carrying out any punishment. 

2 33.. He will report to the Commander-in-Chief, or, if acting sin- 
gly, to the Department, the punishments inflicted upon officers, and 
the reasons therefor. 

2 34.. Every three months, or oftener, if necessary, he will have 
the chain cables, hawsers, and spare sails examined, and he will 
have the condition of all stores on board very frequently looked to, 
and will take such measures as will protect them from injury from 
too long or too close stowage, or from any other cause. 

235 . .He will have the pumps that are not worked daily worked 
once a week at least, and a report made of the quantity of water 
they discharge, which will be entered in the log-book. 

236. -He will not keep any bad provisions on board his ship, nor 
put his crew on short allowance, except in case of absolute necessity. 

237. -He may issue extra rations to passengers, but to secure the 
Paymaster he must give the order in writing. 

238 . . He will direct that seals be placed on the effects of all offi- 
cers and passengers who may die on board his ship. 

239 ..If, on account of the length of the cruise or any other 
cause, the said effects are deteriorating, he may order a sale of such 
portions as are perishable, having a proper account of such sale 
made out. 



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Officers Commanding Vessels. 



240.. He is to take every precaution to secure to all persons 
under Ms command the rights afforded them by the pension laws. 
(See article on Pensions.) 

241 ..He shall make a report to the Commander-in-Chief of the 
squadron, or to the Secretary of the Navy, if cruising alone, of all 
passengers carried in the vessel under his command, assigning his 
reasons for having them on board. 

2 4 2.. Every Commander of a vessel of the Navy shall report to 
the "Department, immediately upon its occurrence, every instance of 
the vessel under his command having touched on a shoal or rock, 
or having sustained any injury to the lower masts, hull, or bow- 
sprit, with all the circumstances attending the accident, and his 
opinion as to the probable injury sustained ; and at the termination 
of his cruise he will send duplicates of all such reports made during 
the cruise to the Department. 

243 ..In all cases of collision resulting seriously, Commanding 
Officers are to report the facts to the Commander-in-Chief of the 
squadron to which they are attached, or, if acting singly, to the Sec- 
retary of the Navy. 

244.. In the event of the collision between a vessel of the Navy 
and a merchant vessel, so serious or under such circumstances as not 
to admit of immediate repair with the resources at hand, and, there- 
fore, likely to involve damages, the Commander of the naval vessel 
is, if possible, at once to order a board of three officers, (one of 
whom, when practicable, to be a carpenter,) to ascertain all the at- 
tending circumstances, injuries received, probable amount of dam- 
ages, and report to him in triplicate accordingly ; and he is then, 
without delay, to forward to the Navy Department one of these 
triplicates, and to furnish the master of the merchant vessel with 
one of them. The remaining one he is to retain for any future ref- 
erence that may be necesary. When repairs have been effected on 
the spot, a suitable certificate of the fact is to be taken from the 
master of the merchant vessel, and forwarded to the Navy Depart- 
ment. 

24 5.. To preserve his boats he will keep them slung up at the 
davits as much as possible. 

246 ..A Commanding Officer will not allow any passenger to in- 
terfere In any matters relating to his vessel. (See paragraph 641.) 



28 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Officers Commanding Vessels. 

247, -When not acting nnder the orders of a superior officer, he 
will be governed by the regulations for the Commander-in-Chief, so 
far as they may be applicable to his case. 

248 . . Should a vessel be separated from a fleet or squadron to 
which it belongs, the Commander must show that such separation 
was not caused by any neglect of his, and that he had complied 
strictly with all instructions which may have been given for his 
government in case of such separation, 

249 - . Should he find it necessary to go into a port not designated 
or permitted by his instructions, he will make no unnecessary stay, 
and will report the cause of the necessity and of any delay that may 
occur. 

2 50.. Commanders of vessels on foreign stations may receive on 
board distressed sailors of the United States without reference to 
the established complement. If, on the usual examination, they be 
found fit for the service, they may be enlisted for such period as may 
be judged expedient, not exceeding three yea^rs ; but if not so found, 
or if unwilling to enlist, they may be entered as supernumeraries, 
for passage and rations, provided they bind themselves to be amen- 
able, in all respects, to the Laws and Regulations for the Govern- 
ment of the Navy. Such persons, however, are not to be so received, 
enlisted, or entered, without the authority of the senior officer pres- 
ent, and Commanders concerned are to keep the Commander-in- 
Chief of the fleet or squadron fully informed of all transactions 
with regard to them. 

2 51.. They shall take care that no merchant seamen be received 
on board on a foreign station, as prisoners, under charges preferred 
against them, unless the witnesses necessary to substantiate such 
charges accompany them, or some equally certain means are adopted 
to insure their appearance on the arrival of the prisoners at the 
place where they will be handed over to the civil authorities. 

252.. In a port where there is not a Consul of the United States, 
and on the high seas, Commanders of fleets and squadrons, and of 
single vessels, are authorized and empowered by law to exercise the 
powers of Consuls, in regard to mariners of the United States. (See 
Law of February 20, 1845.J 

253 . . Commanders of vessels violating or departing from their or- 
ders or instructions, at the request of a Consul or any other person, 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 29 

Officers Commanding Vessels. 

must do so on their own responsibility, and will be held to a strict 
account by their superiors. 

2 5 4.. In case of the death, desertion, or capture, by an enemy, of 
any person belonging to the Navy, it shall be the duty of the Com- 
mander of the vessel, upon the books of which the name of such 
person may be borne,, to cause his effects to be collected and deliv- 
ered to the Paymaster for safe-keeping, together with an inven- 
tory of the same, to be signed by two mess-mates, if they belonged 
to an officer, or, if they belonged to any other person, by the officer 
of his division. He shall also, in addition to the usual official re- 
port of the death of any person on board the vessel under his com- 
mand, cause information of the same to be forwarded to the nearest 
relative or friend of the deceased, if the address of such relative or 
friend can be obtained. 

2 5 5.. All orders received by a Commanding Officer applicable to 
others under his command or authority are to be promptly commu- 
nicated. No delay will be tolerated, except in cases of palpable 
necessity. 

2 5 6.. He shall make to the Honorable Secretary of the Navy, 
through the Commander-in-Chief, a full report of any action, chase, 
or important movement in which the vessel he commands may be 
engaged, and will also furnish diagrams illustrating the positions 
and movements of the vessels, the direction of the wind, the bear- 
ing, distance, and outline of land, should any be in sight, and all 
information which may tend to throw light on the occurrence. He 
will also be careful to mention all such as may distinguish them- 
selves, as denned by the act of December 21, 1861, and recommend 
them for medals ; and will, after an action, require from the Execu- 
tive Officer, and officers commanding divisions, reports of the gen- 
eral conduct of those under their observation. (See paragraphs 92-93. ) 

25 7.. He will keep a minute journal of his cruise, giving a full 
account of all places visited by his ship, information in regard to 
the naval forces of foreign powers, descriptions of the force of all 
naval ships he may meet with, and all information that may be use- 
ful to the government. 

2 58.. He will direct his officers, when going into a foreign port, 
to obtain information in regard to everything new and useful re- 
lating to naval matters which they will report to him. 



30 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Officers Commanding Vessels. 

2 59 ..He will particularly report to the Navy Department the 
capacity and power of every foreign vessel of war he may meet 
with, either on the station to which he is attached or elsewhere. 

2 60.. He will present his journal to the Commander-in-Chief 
whenever the latter may call for it. 

261 ..He will afford all assistance in his power to vessels of for- 
eign nations with whom we are at peace. 

262 ..If, being in need of assistance, he should receive a refusal 
on the part of any foreign authorities, he will report the circum- 
stance to the Secretary of the Navy. 

263 ..He is to keep a remark-book, in which he is to note all use- 
ful information regarding the places he may visit, stating, in every 
case, their latitude and longitude at least, and, as occasions may 
allow him to ascertain them, the variation of the compass, the pre- 
vailing winds and currents, the dangers in approaching the various 
anchorages, and the means of avoiding such dangers ; the supplies, 
particularly of water, provisions, and spars, which the said places 
can afford, and, generally, every other information regarding them 
which may be deserving of notice, and shall, when practicable, 
cause surveys to be made by the officers under his command, and 
shall make reports to the naval bureaus on the subjects appropriate 
to each : and at the conclusion of his cruise the remark-book shall 
be sent to the Navy Department. 

264. .During a cruise he is to keep the Midshipmen on board em- 
ployed at their studies, to prepare themselves for their examination 
on their return home. 

265 ..He will require the Midshipmen to keep full journals, and 
make drawings of harbors and headlands. 

266. . When a Midshipman leaves his ship, he is to give him such 
a letter to present to the Board of Examiners as he may think the 
said Midshipman's conduct deserves. (See paragraph 812.) 

267 ..He is especially required to see that the Paymaster duly 
credits each person under his command with the amount of prize- 
money due him, in accordance with the statement received from the 
Fourth Auditor of the Treasury. 

2 68.. He will, when acting singly, hold a semi-annual inspection 
of his ship, according to the form given in the Ordnance Instruc- 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. * 31 

Officers Commanding Vessels. 

tions, and forward his report to the Bureau of Ordnance by the first 
opportunity. 

269.. Whenever a Commander is removed from one vessel to 
another, he may take with him his clerk, .Cockswain, one officers' 
steward, one officers' cook, and one person of inferior rating. 

2 70 ..He shall deliver to the officer appointed to succeed him in 
command all signal books, and the originals or attested copies of 
all unexecuted orders which he may have received, for which he 
must take receipts in duplicate, sending one copy through the 
proper channel to the Navy Department. He will leave with his 
successor in command a complete muster-book and expense-book, 
duly audited and signed by him to the time of his resigning his com- 
mand. He shall leave with his successor a report of the qualities 
of the vessel, according to such forms as may be prescribed, to- 
gether with every other information which he may deem service- 
able to her Commander, and he will forward a similar report to the 
Navy Department whenever he is removed from or resigns the com- 
mand of a vessel. Whenever he is removed from or resigns the 
command of a vessel, he will furnish the officer succeeding him in 
the command with a list of the names of such of the crew who 
enlisted for three years as may be deemed worthy of an honorable 
discharge. 

2 71.. Whenever an officer may be relieved from command, he 
shall, before the transfer be effected, make a thorough inspection of 
the ship in company with his successor, and cause the crew to be 
exercised in his presence. He shall point out any defects, and ac- 
count for them, and explain fully any peculiarities of construction 
or arrangements. A statement, in triplicate, of the inspection, shall 
be drawn up, and if satisfactory, shall be signed by the officer suc- 
ceeding to the command. If not satisfactory, the latter shall state 
in what particular it is not so, and the officer relieved shall make 
such explanations as he may deem necessary, each over his own 
siguature. One copy of this statement shall be forwarded to the 
Secretary of the Navy, and one shall be retained by each of the 
Commanding Officers. 

2 72. -He will, in forwarding his report of the qualities of the 
vessel, and at other times, if he deems it important, suggest any 
alterations which, in his opinion, would render the vessel more 



32 ' REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Officers Commanding Vessels. 

efficient, or improve her qualities in any particular, and the prob- 
able expense attending such change. 

2 73.. He will facilitate any examination which it maybe the 
duty of any custom-house officer of the United States to make on 
board the vessel he commands. 

2 74.. The Commanding Officer of a vessel, acting independently, 
can only send persons under his command back to the United States 
under the following circumstances : first, expiration of their term 
of service ; second, persons sick, wounded, or pronounced unfit for 
service by a medical board ; third, persons charged with crime or 
delinquency and the necessary witnesses, when a competent court 
cannot be called to try them on board the vessel. 

2 75. -When there is occasion to send a boat expedition from his 
vessel, the Commanding Officer will designate the officer who is to 
command it, and will give him written orders regarding the duties 
of the expedition. 

2 76.. In time of war he will never permit the pilot to leave the 
vessel while on pilot ground. 

2 7 7.. When sailing in a fleet a Commanding Officer is to care- 
fully maintain the order of battle made known by the Commander- 
in-Chief. 

278. -In case of a dark night or fog, when signals cannot be 
transmitted, a Commanding Officer is to act to the best of his ability, 
but is to preserve the order of sailing, if possible. 

279. -In a squadron or division no Commanding Officer of a ves- 
sel can engage the enemy without a signal from his Commander-in- 
Chief or having been otherwise ordered to do so. 

280 ..No Commanding Officer will leave a fight to assist a dis- 
abled vessel, or take possession of a captured one, without permis- 
sion from the Commander-in-Chief or his immediate Commanding 
Officer of division. 

281.. In case a Commanding Officer drops out of a fight by rea- 
son of his ship being disabled in her machinery, it will be his duty 
to get his vessel into action under sail, and to make repairs as soon 
as possible. 

282 . . In presence of the enemy, Commanding Officers who have 
no part in the order of battle will employ themselves in aiding dis- 
abled vessels. 



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Officers Commanding Vessels. 

283. -They will keep hawsers in readiness to tow tkeni out of a 
fight or get them into position again. 

284.. Whenever they observe that an enemy's vessel is crippled 
and dropping out of line, they will concentrate their fire and cap- 
ture her, if possible. 

285 . .When vessels of the enemy haul down their colors they will 
send an officer on board with a detachment to take possession, and 
will note in their report to what vessel in the fleet the enemy's 
vessel surrendered. 

286.. When a vessel of the enemy strikes her flag in an action, it 
will be the duty of a Commanding Officer to send an officer on board 
in a boat, if possible, to demand the Captain's sword, and to bring 
that officer with him, as a proof that his vessel has surrendered. 

287.. If, under these circumstances, an enemy's vessel should 
again hoist her flag and continue the fight, she may be destroyed. 

288.. When a Commanding Officer has taken possession of a ves- 
sel after surrender, he will adopt all necessary precautions to pre- 
vent the vessel from being recaptured. He will send all the officers 
and a number of the crew of the captured vessel on board his own 
ship, and will seize all journals, signals, written orders, and other 
important papers, particularly those that may serve to certify to 
the validity of the prize. 

289.. The Commanding Officer of a vessel will see that prisoners 
of war are treated with humanity, that their personal property is 
carefully protected, and that they have the use of such of their 
effects as are necessary to their comfort. 

290. -He will see that prisoners of war are duly supplied with 
rations. 

291 ..He will take care that prisoners of war are guarded and 
deprived of all means of escape or revolt. 

292. .The moment an action is over, it is the duty of the Com- 
manding Officer of a vessel to repair all damages and put his ship 
in good fighting order without delay. He will make a new distri- 
bution of the crew at the guns and sails, and have reported to him 
the exact amount of munitions of war remaining on board. He will 
transmit to the Commander-in-Chief an account of the battle, in- 
cluding a statement of the conduct of his officers and crew, and a 
list of killed and wounded. 
3 NR 



34 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Officers Commanding Vessels. 

293.. Should the Commanding Officer of a vessel be compelled 
to strike his flag, he is to take special care to destroy all signals and 
papers, the possession of which by an enemy might be injurious to 
the United States, and he will keep them so prepared, with weights 
attached to them that they will sink immediately on being thrown 
overboard. 

2 94.. In case of danger to his ship, where she is likely to be lost 
or destroyed, or where it is necessary to abandon her, the Com- 
manding Officer should be the last person to leave the vessel. * He 
should first provide for the safety of his officers and crew. 

295.. In case of shipwreck, or any other disaster whereby the 
ship may be lost, the Commander, with the officers and men, shall 
stay by her as long as possible, and save all they can. He shall 
particularly endeavor to save the log, muster, pay and receipt books, 
and other valuable papers. 

296. -In every case of the loss or capture of a vessel of the Navy, 
it is hereby made the duty of her Commander to cause immediately 
the officers of divisions to ascertain carefully the loss of clothing 
and bedding sustained by their men, and to report to him, in writ- 
ing, the result of their investigation. These reports, drawn up in a 
uniform way, and signed by himself and those officers respectively, 
he is to submit, without delay, to the Navy Department. 

297. -In the event of loss of accounts occurring from the loss or 
capture of a vessel of the Navy, he will order the Paymaster to open 
fresh ones with the survivors, commencing them from the date of 
the disaster, and giving to each person the rate he held at the time 
the accounts were lost ; and these accounts, so made out, are to ac- 
company the survivors oty their being transferred to a vessel or 
station, the Paymaster of which is to govern himself by them in 
making .payments or issues, until he receives further instructions 
concerning them from the Navy Department or the Fourth Auditor 
of the Treasury. 

298. .When, from the loss of a vessel, or from any cause, the de- 
scriptive lists of the crew are lost, it shall be the duty of the Com- 
manding Officer to make application for such descriptive lists to the 
Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting, forwarding, with his letter 
of application, a list containing the names and rating of the crew at 
the time of their enlistment. 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 35 

Officers Commanding Vessels, 

2 99.. If shipwrecked within the United States, he shall, after 
doing all in his power to save the public property, repair, as soon 
as practicable, to the nearest navy yard or station, and, in all cases, 
make the earliest possible report to the Navy Department. 

300 . . He shall, in case of shipwreck without the United States, 
lose no time in returning to the fleet or squadron to which he may 
belong, or, if acting alone, to the United States, with his officers 
and crew, to effect which he may dispose of the property saved, or 
draw, bills, as he may deem most" advantageous to the public in- 
terests, 

301. .No Commanding Officer of a vessel will, on entering a United 
States port, take his ship to a navy yard without first discharging 
his powder at a magazine. 

302 ..Commanding Officers of vessels, under the orders of the 
Commandant of a navy yard or station, will not give liberty to 
officers or men without the authority of said Commandant first ob- 
tained. 

303. -The Commanding Officer of a vessel arriving at any port in 
the United States is to see that a requisition is forwarded, the day 
of his arrival, for money to pay off all the crew who may be ordered 
to be discharged, or whose terms of service have expired. 

304. -When men are paid off, at the end of a cruise, the Com- 
manding Officer will be present in person, and he will not delegate 
this duty to his Executive Officer. 

305 ..The Commanding Officer is then and there to sign the 
honorable discharges of such men as he may deem worthy of them, 
or he is to mark the honorable discharges of previous cruises as 
called for in the honorable discharge. 

306. -It will be the duty of a Commanding Officer to have the 
regular routine of the ship, as prescribed by law, continue till he 
turns the vessel over to the Commanding Officer of the station. The 
Commanding Officer of a vessel will be present at the inspection to 
be made previous to delivering his vessel to the Commander of the 
station. 

307. -He will see that all furniture and other articles that he re- 
ceived from the station are accounted for, and will make such ex- 
planations as are necessary in regard to changes in the vessel. 

308. -If it is discovered that unauthorized changes have been 



36 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Officers Commanding Steam-tessels. 

made by the Commanding Officer of a vessel, and if he cannot justify 
them to the Secretary of the Navy, the expense of such alterations 
must he borne by the Commanding Officer. 

309. -A Commanding Officer will not leave his vessel until he is 
satisfied that all returns have been properly made, and all instru- 
ments, &c, turned over to the proper authority. 

310.. Before relinquishing command, he is to sign the Midship- 
men's journals, and give to each one such a letter as he may deem 
proper for presentation to the Board of Examiners, as provided for 
under head of general instructions, par. 812. 

311. -The authority of the Commanding Officer of a vessel will 
cease when his pennant is hauled down and the vessel turned over 
to the Commander of the station. At the same time, he is held re- 
sponsible that her yeoman is not discharged until all his accounts 
are settled. 

OFFICERS COMMANDING STEAM- VESSELS. 

312 ..When an officer shall be appointed to the command of a 
steam-vessel, he is to observe carefully the following directions, in 
addition to those x>rescribed in the next preceding section, relating 
to "Officers Commanding Vessels." 

313. -He is to use all possible diligence to make himself ac- 
quainted with the principles and construction of the engines, the 
intention and effect of the various parts of the machinery, the time 
the engines were constructed, the repairs they may have undergone, 
the period when the last repairs were made, and when the vessel 
last received new boilers. 

314. -As a material saving in the consumption of fuel maybe 
produced by reducing the engine power, without reducing essen- 
tially the speed, and as occasions for this exercise of economy may 
frequently occur, he is to make himself acquainted with the prin- 
ciple and effect of the expansion of steam, and to require that the 
expansion gear should at all times be brought into play when the 
engines are not worked up to their full power. 

315- -In order to ascertain the capabilities of the ship under his 
command, he is, as soon as he proceeds to sea, to make careful and 
repeated trials by using the steam expansively, under every variety 



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Officers Commanding Steam- 

of wind and weather, draught of water, and other circumstances, 
so as to be able at all times to apply the principle of expansion, ac- 
cording to the nature of the service on which he may be engaged, 
and to calculate with accuracy the number of days the ship can be 
under steam without being obliged to put into port for fuel. 

316. -Vessels under steam will never use more than two-thirds of 
their boiler-power unless in an emergency, which must be fully 
entered and explained upon the log, and a special report of the 
same made to the Bureau of Steam Engineering. 

317. .When paddle-wheel steamers are running long distances in 
the trades, with the wind free, the paddles in the water are to be 
removed and the vessel navigated under sail alone. Under other 
circumstances, steam may be used according to the foregoing para- 
graph. 

318. -As to the use of sails, either with or without the use of 
steam, or as to moderating the steam when running head to wind 
and sea, each Commanding Officer must be guided by his own 
judgment, but with the understanding that he must be prepared to 
justify every expenditure of fuel for steaming purposes, if called 
upon to do so. His judgment will necessarily be based upon a con- 
sideration of the urgency and nature of the service to be performed, 
of the wind and weather, and upon the difficulties of the navigation, 
and the qualities of the vessel ; but he is to take care, first, that 
steam is not used at all when the service can be performed without 
it ; secondly, that sail is never dispensed with when it can be em- 
ployed to advantage to assist the steam ; and, thirdly, that full 
steam power is never employed, unless in chase, or absolutely neces- 
sary, the cause for which must be reported to the Department in 
writing. 

319. -He is carefully to inform himself of the usual daily con- 
sumption of coals, and to obtain all information in regard to the most 
economical and efficient use of the engines and their appendages- 

320 ..To prevent accidents by spontaneous combustion, he is to 
order the greatest care to be observed that the coals are not taken 
on board when wet and that when on board they are kept as dry as 
possible. When a fresh supply is received he is to direct that those 
remaining in the coal-bunkers be, as far as practicable, so stowed 
as to be used first. 



38. REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Officers Commanding Steam-vessels. 

321. -He is, before leaving the port where the vessel was fitted, to 
cause all the spare gear belonging to the engines and machinery to 
be taken on board, and he is to land no part of it at any port where 
he may touch, without the written authority of the Commanding 
Officer of the station, or of the Commander of the squadron to 
which he belongs. 

322 . .Whenever he joins his Commanding Officer after separation, 
or when he arrives at any port where there is a superior officer in 
command, he shall report the number of hours the vessel was under 
steam and under sail, and the circumstances which rendered the use 
of steam necessary. 

323. -When x>racticable, he shall, before going to sea, cause the 
boilers to be filled with fresh water. 

324. -He will direct the Engineer to have the flues, chimneys, and 
boilers cleaned whenever it may be necessary, and when repairs or 
cleaning are required for the engines or boilers, they are to be made, 
as far as practicable, by the engineers, firemen, and coal-heavers of 
the vessel. 

325. -He shall take care that the proper lanterns, to prevent col- 
lision at sea, be kept in good order, and always lighted at night? 
except when it may be expedient to conceal all lights. 

326. -He is to have the force-pnmps, hose, and all other means for 
extinguishing fires, kept constantly in order and ready for imme- 
diate use ; and he is to require the utmost care to be taken at all 
times in the storage of stores, the use of lights and fires, and in the 
adoj)tion of all other precautionary measures to prevent danger from 
fire. 

327. -He shall examine the steam-log daily, and if satisfied of its 
correctness, sign it every month, or oftener, should the vessel in the 
meantime arrive at any port. 

328 ..The Commander of the vessel shall transmit to the Depart- 
ment, by the first safe opportunity after the close of the months of 
March, June, September, and December, a fair copy of the steam 
log-book for the preceding quarter, and whenever a steamer is placed 
in ordinary, for the period which has not been previously trans- 
mitted. 

329. .He will require the steam engineers to conform to the orders 
of the officer of the deck for the time being ; but they are not, ex- 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 39 

Officers Commanding Steam-vessels, 

cept in cases of necessity, to be ordered to perform other duties than 
those immediately connected with the preservation, repair, manage- 
ment, or supplying of the engines and their dependencies. 

330. .He will cause the engineers, firemen, and coal-heavers, to he 
arranged in watches, and, when on watch, they are to be under the 
immediate direction of the senior Engineer of the watch, and are not 
to be ordered on other duties than those connected with the engines, 
boilers, and their dependencies, except in cases of necessity, and 
then the engineer on duty is to be informed, that he may adopt all 
necessary precautions. 

331 . -He will cause the senior Engineer to submit for the approval 
of the Executive Officer, watch, fire, quarter, and cleaning bills, 
showing the specific duties of the engineers, firemen, and coal- 
heavers. 

332. .He will require the senior Engineer on board to examine 
daily the engines and their dependencies, and all parts of the ves- 
sel which are occupied by them, or by stores for their use, and to 
report them to the Executive Officer for inspection ; to make imme- 
diate report, should any defect or danger be discovered ; to give 
timely notice to the Commander of the vessel of the probable wants 
of his department, and whenever articles are received for it, to care- 
fully examine if they are of proper quality, and report any which, in 
his opinion, may be objectionable. 

333. -He will make such regulations with regard to leave on shore 
that the ship will never be left without the services of an expe- 
rienced engineer. He will cause a full engineer watch to be kept 
constantly whenever the fires are lighted, and take care that one 
engineer, at least, with a watch of firemen and coal-heavers, are 
always on hand, even though the ship may be at anchor and the 
fires hauled. With a reduced complement of engineers this article 
will be complied with as nearly as may be possible. 

334. -Steam may be raised on board vessels of the Navy for the 
purpose of dispelling damp and unwholesome air or drying the ship, 
whenever, in the opinion of the Commanding Officer, it is necessary. 

335. -The Commanding Officer of a vessel having full sail power 
will get up steam on his vessel once a month, for the purpose of 
turning over the engines, and, when practicable, will take an op- 
portunity to do so when going in or out of port. 



40 REGULATIONS FOR THE 



Executive Officer. 



EXECUTIVE OFFICER. 

336-.Tlie Executive Officer is next in rank, in command, and in 
precedence, to the Commanding Officer of a vessel. 

33 7 ..He is charged with the general detail, and with the admin- 
istration of the police of the ship. 

338. .He will represent the Commanding Officer in his temporary 
absence, and will succeed him in case of death, until relieved'by 
competent authority. 

339 . -He will make himself acquainted with all the arrangements 
and equipments of the ship, and will report to the Commanding 
Officer any defects that he may discover. 

340 . . He Avill require all officers having charge of stores, and the 
yeoman, to be present when their stores are coming on board. 

341. -He will commence the log-book from the day when the ship 
goes into commission, and will have the fact noted therein. 

342. .The Executive Officer will receive the orders for the gen- 
eral management of the ship, direct from the Commanding Officer, 
and will transmit them to the other officers of the vessel. 

343 ..He is responsible to the Commanding Officer for the execu- 
tion of all orders so transmitted, and will report to him if the orders 
are not complied with. 

344 . . He will, as soon as possible after the crew come aboard, have 
the watch, quarter, fire, and station bills made out, and kept com- 
plete, according to orders he may receive from the Commanding 
Officer. He will see that copies of these, and of the laws and reg 
ulations of the Navy, are so disposed that all on board the ship may 
readily refer to them for information. 

345 ..He shall inform himself of the capacity of each man on 
board, and of the stations they may have previously filled, that he 
may station them to the best advantage. 

346 ..If he has doubts of a man's physical ability, he will have 
him examined by the Surgeon, to ascertain if he is able to go the 
cruise. 

347. -He will see that all Petty Officers, Seamen, Marines, and 
all others of the crew, are supplied with tickets of their stations. 

348 ..He will see that every man is supplied with a permanent 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 41 

Executive Officer. 

place to sleep on board, which must be indicated by a painted 
number. 

349.. He will see that the officers keep correct copies of the 
watch, quarter, fire, and station bills ; that the officers of divisions 
keep correct clothes-lists of the men under their command ; and 
that they instruct the men of their divisions faithfully in their 
duties. 

350.. He will keep a correct muster-roll of the crew, and a de- 
scriptive list, and he will have charge of the liberty and conduct 
books. He will superintend the messing of the crew, and in case 
of any changes involving the issue of provisions, he will cause the 
paymaster to be duly informed. 

351.. He will exercise authority over all the officers of the vessel, 
and see that they vigilantly perform their duties, and that they con- 
form to all orders for securing uniformity in the mode of executing 
them. 

352.. He is to correct, as far as his power extends, all abuses; 
and if he observes or has knowledge of any violation of the Laws 
and Regulations for the government of the Navy, on the part of any 
person whomsoever, he is not to exercise any discretion in the matter, 
but to make immediate report to the Commander. 

353. -He shall immediately report to the Commander any defect 
or deficiency that may come to his knowledge, and which may in 
any manner endanger the safety or impair the efficiency of the 
vessel. 

354 ..In the absence of the Commander, he is not to alter or 
change any of his regulations. 

3 5 5.. He will not absent himself from the ship without the per- 
mission of the Commanding Officer. 

356.. He will examine all parts of the vessel daily, and report 
the ship's condition to the Commanding Officer, at 10 a. m. 

357.. He shall require from the Chief Engineer, Boatswain, Gun- 
ner, Carpenter, and Sailmaker, reports of the state of the vessel in 
their respective departments, at eight o'clock in the evening, and at 
morning inspection. 

358. -He shall at eight o'clock in the evening report the condi- 
tion of the vessel to the Commander, and receive any orders he may 
have for him. 



42 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Executive Officer. 

359. -He is authorized to relieve, temporarily, from duty any 
officer whom he may consider deserves it, in consequence of any in- 
fraction of the rules or regulations, but he will report such cases 
without delay to the Commanding Officer. 

360. .He is to preside at the mess table, and see that proper order 
and decorum are preserved. 

361.. He will permit no discussion in relation to the conduct of 
the Commanding Officer, or that of the other officers, or of the crew. 

362. .He is responsible that all punishments are correctly regis- 
tered, and must keep the punishment book himself. 

363. -He will designate the places where spare articles are to be 
stowed, and these are not to be removed without his permission. 

3 64.. When the magazine is to be opened for receiving or dis- 
charging powder, he shall see in person that all prescribed precau- 
tions against accidents are rigidly observed. 

365. -When powder is to be embarked or disembarked he will 
have a red flag hoisted at the fore, and all fires in the ship extin- 
guished, unless it may be the fires under the boilers. 

366 ..He will post sentinels according to circumstances, and take 
all proper precaution to avoid explosion. 

367. .He is at all times to keep himself informed as to the amount 
of munitions of war on board. 

368. -He shall cause a convenient locker to be prepared, in which 
the keys of the holds and all store-rooms shall be hung up, except 
those which the Ordnance Instructions require to be kept in the 
charge of the Commander of the vessel; it shall be his duty to see 
that all such keys are hung up at sunset, and that they are not 
taken away during the night without his knowledge ; and that the 
keys of no store-room are ever taken out of the ship. The keys of 
the Paymaster's store-room will, however, remain under charge of 
that officer ; those of the Surgeon's under charge of the Medical 
Officer ; and those of the Marine store-room in charge of the Ma- 
rine Officer. 

369 ..Whenever all hands are called for any particular duty? 
exercise, or evolution, he shall take charge of the deck. 

3 70 ..When he takes charge of the deck he will see that every 
officer of the ship fit for duty is at his station. 

371. .When the Commander of the vessel is not on deck the Ex- 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 43 

Executive Officer. 

eeutive Officer may advise and direct the Officer of the Deck in the 
working and management of the ship; and if, in his judgment, cir- 
cumstances should make it necessary, he may take charge of the 
deck, stating his reasons for so doing to the Commander. 

372 . -He will satisfy himself, when in port, that the sentinels are 
properly placed, and will give the officer commanding the Marine 
Guard the orders of the day. 

373 ..He will draw up a routine for each day of the week, which 
will he hung up, for the information of the Officer of the Deck. 

374 ..Under the orders of the Commanding Officer the Executive 
Officer can grant permission to the other officers of the ship, whose 
duties will permit, to go on shore, hut he can grant no permission to 
remain out of the ship later than ten o'clock p. m. 

375 . . He is responsible for the proper mooring of the vessel, and 
will have a report made to him at morning, evening, and turn of 
tide, of the situation of the hawse, and is to clear the same hefore 
there is a round turn therein. 

376. -It will he his duty to go through the vessel hefore eight 
o'clock p. m., and satisfy himself that everything is in good condi- 
tion. 

377 ..In case of fire, or any other occurrence that may place the 
ship in danger, he shall exert himself to maintain order, and if it 
should hecome necessary to ahandon the vessel, he will, under the 
direction of the Commanding Officer, see that the sick and wounded 
are first cared for. 

3 78 ..He will hand to the Commanding Officer every day a state- 
ment of the amount of water, provisions, and coal on hoard the 
ship. 

379 ..He shall, under the direction of the Commander, control 
the expenditure of all stores in charge of the Yeoman, and examine 
weekly the reports of receipts and expenditures ; and, upon being 
satisfied of their correctness, will approve and send them to the 
Commander. 

380 . . He shall keep at hand a breaker of water and a supply of 
provisions, sufficient for the support of the crew of each quarter- 
boat for one week, which will be placed in the boat whenever there 
is a probability of separation from the ship by fog or otherwise. 
The boat sails shall be kept in readiness for immediate use. If it 



44 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Executive Officer. 

shall be necessary to send a boat from the ship at sea he will be 
careful that she is provided with a compass. 

381.. He will, when the number of officers permits, assign one to 
each boat, whose duty it shall be to command the boat when re- 
quired for special service, and who will be responsible that the 
arms, equipments, and crew are in order and ready for service. 

382 . . When boats are bound on an expedition he will give the 
officers in command orders in relation to the articles, provisions, &c, 
to go in each boat, and before the boats leave he will have reported 
to him that the articles are on board. 

383.. He will exercise particular supervision over the instruction 
of Midshipmen, according to orders received from the Commanding 
Officer. 

384 . . He will give to Midshipmen, when they leave the ship for 
their examination, such letters as he may deem their conduct 
deserves. (See paragraph 812.) 

385. .He shall not be required to keep a watch, unless circum- 
stances (in the judgment of the Commander of the vessel) should 
render it necessary. 

386 . . He will pay particular attention to the staying of masts 
and spars, and see that they are not injured by having the rigging 
set up too taut. 

387 . . When the vessel goes to sea, it will be his duty to order the 
chafing gear put on, that the yards and rigging may receive no 
damage. 

388 . . Before entering port, it is his duty to satisfy himself that 
all preparations have been made for anchoring the vessel, and he 
will have made out a list of all stores and provisions required for 
the ship, and lay it before the Commanding Officer. 

389 . . On going into a foreign port he is to make regulations with 
regard to bumboats, ascertain that their tariff of prices is correct? 
and will permit no infraction of the same. He will have the Mas- 
ter-at-Arms, or Ship's Corporal, stationed in the bumboats, and allow 
no large number of men to congregate there. 

390.. He will not allow unwholesome fruit to come alongside. 

391 ..He will not permit any merchants to come on board to ex- 
hibit their wares, without the permission of the Commanding 
Officer. 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 45 

Lieutenant Commanders, Lieutenants, and Masters. 

392., He will examine the binnacle list every morning directly 
after medical inspection. 

393 ..He will superintend the preparation on board for the burial 
of all deceased persons. 

394 ..When the vessel is cleared for action, he will go around 
and see if the proper disposition has been made, and report to the 
Commanding Officer when the vessel is ready. 

395. .In time of action, his place is at the side of the Command* 
ing Officer to pass his orders, and he will be ready to repair to any 
part of the vessel where his presence may be necessary. 

396 . .He will lead the first boarding party. 

39 7 ..During an action he will see that injuries to the hull and 
spars are immediately repaired. 

3 98.. At the end of an action, he is to inform himself of the inju- 
ries received by the vessel, in hull, spars, and rigging, and the num- 
ber of killed and wounded on board, and report to the Commanding 
Officer. He will, without delay, fill np the stations of all those killed 
and wounded. 

399 ..When the vessel is laid np, he will remain by her until all 
the officers and men are transferred, and the vessel turned over to 
the proper authorities. 

400 ..He will send a statement to the Commanding Officer each 
evening of the progress of the work going on while the vessel is 
being dismantled. 

401 . . If at any time, from any cause, the Executive Officer should 
be rendered incapable of performing his duties, they will devolve 
upon the line officer next below him in rank. 

LIEUTENANT COMMANDERS, LIEUTENANTS, AND MASTERS. 

402 . . Lieutenant Commanders, Lieutenants, and Masters, are the 
Navigating, Watch, and Division Officers. 

403.. They will punctually and zealously execute all orders they 
may receive from their Commanding or other Superior Officer, and, 
as far as in their power, see that all on board, who are subordinate 
to them, perform with diligence and propriety the several duties 
assigned them. They are to be attentive to the conduct of the ship's 
company - to prevent all profane, abusive, and improper language, 



46 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Lieutenant Commanders, Lieutenants, and Masters. 

all disturbance, noise, and confusion; and to report to the Executive 
Officer those whose misconduct they may think deserving of punish- 
ment. They will conform to the manner of performing duty adopted 
by the Executive Officer, and the regulations and customs of the 
Navy. 

404 . . On taking charge of a watch, an officer is to make himself 
well acquainted with the position of the vessel with reference to all 
other vessels in sight, and to any land or danger that may be near, 
and with all orders that remain unexecuted. He shall hold no con- 
versation with any one, except on duty, nor engage in any occupa- 
tion which may distract his attention. He is to see that the men 
on deck are kept on the alert, and attentive to their duty ; that the 
look-outs are kept at their several stations, and are vigilant ; that 
each sail set is kept properly spread and trimmed ; and every precau- 
tion is observed to prevent accidents from squalls. Throughout his 
watch he is to be careful that the vessel is properly steered ; that a 
correct account is kept of her way and leeway ; and that the courses 
and distances, together with every occurrence of importance and 
interest, and accident resulting in loss of any kind, are plainly and 
legibly entered on the deck-log, which log he is to sign at the con- 
clusion of his remarks with his initials, on the termination of his 
watch. 

405. -He is to see that the subordinate officers of the watch are 
in their stations, and attentive to their duties ; and that they muster 
the men on deck when the other men are relieved from it, and as 
often afterward as he may judge necessary. 

4C6..He is to be careful, at night, that the required lights are 
kept burning and are properly trimmed, and, in fogs, that the re- 
quired signals are sounded. In approaching and passing vessels he 
is to be governed by the regulations for preventing collisions. 

407 ..He is promptly to inform the Commanding Officer of all 
strange vessels that maybe discovered; of any land, shoal, rock, or 
danger that may be made ; of all changes of wind or weather ; of all 
alterations of canvas or steam by the Commanding Officer of the 
squadron or division to which the vessel may belong ; and, gener- 
ally, of all occurrences worthy of notice. 

408 . . He is never, on his own authority, to carry sail or steam 
so as to endanger spars or machinery; nor, when the Commanding 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 47 

Lieutenant Commanders, Lieutenants, and Masters. 

Officer is on deck, is he ever to alter either without first consult- 
ing him. 

409. .He is never to change the given course without orders from 
the Commanding Officer, unless it maybe necessary to do so to avoid 
danger, and then he shall rej)ort to him without delay. 

410 . . On the discovery of a strange sail at night, or in a fog, dur- 
ing war, he is, besides sending at once to inform the Command Offi- 
cer of the fact, to have made, immediately, every preparation for 
action that circumstances will allow. 

411 ..At night he is to take care that the Master-at-Arms, Ship's 
Corporal, or non-commissioned officer of marines detailed for the 
purpose, on watch, is particular in going the rounds and visiting 
every accessible part of the vessel below the spar deck, every half- 
hour, in order to see that no irregularities are occurring among the 
crew ; that all prisoners are safe and in their places ; that no im- 
proper lights are burning ; that no smoking after hours is taking 
place ; and reporting to him accordingly. He will also take care 
that an officer of the watch go the same rounds at least as often as 
twice during his watch. And, besides, he is to cause the pumps to 
be sounded twice, or oftener, during his watch, and a Gunner's Mate 
or Quarter Gunner to examine the security of the battery as fre- 
quently, and have the reports with regard to both examinations 
made to him. 

412. -He is not to make any signal without orders from the Com- 
mander, unless to warn vessels of some danger ; but he will see that 
everything is in readiness to make them, by day or by night. 

413 ..He shall always have his side-arms either on the person or 
at hand ; a trumpet shall be carried at sea, and a spy-glass in port. 
During wet weather he may wear a water- proof coat and cap. 

414. -He will give his attention that all officers, or others, coming 
on board or leaving the ship, shall receive the marks of respect to 
which they are entitled. 

415. -No boat is to be allowed to leave the ship or come along- 
side, without the knowledge of the Officer of the Deck. When boats 
or tenders come alongside with provisions, water, or stores of any 
kind, he is to see them cleared without delay, and that no prohibited 
articles are brought on board ; and also see that all articles which 
may be ordered to be sent out of the vessel are carefully and prop- 



48 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Lieutenant Commanders, Lieutenants, and Masters. 

erly put on board the vessel or boats which are directed to receive 
thern. 

416. -When boats leave the ship, he will be particular to see that 
they have their proper crews, suitably clothed, and that no man not 
belonging to a boat shall take the place of one who does, without 
the authority of the Executive Officer. 

417. -He shall take care that a strict and accurate account is 
taken of all stores received on board, or sent from the vessel during 
his watch, and see that those which are received are delivered 
in charge of the proper officer, and that the number or quantity 
received or sent from the vessel is correctly entered on the log- 
slate. 

418. -He shall never cause the engines of a steam vessel to be 
stopped, without first slowing them, nor to be worked at full speed 
until the vessel has first gathered way, except in cases of great emer- 
gency, 

419 ..He will see the conductors, life-buoys, heaving lines, and 
drift-leads ready for service, and that a boat is always ready for 
lowering. 

420. -A Lieutenant, Master, or Ensign, when called or sent on 
board the vessel of the Commander-in-Chief, Commander of a squad- 
ron, or Commander of a division, to receive orders, is to take with 
him an order-book, and insert therein the orders that may be given 
to him, 

421 . . An officer commanding a division of guns and men on board 
a vessel, is to be held responsible for its efficiency in all respects. 
Besides keeping the guns in constant condition for action, and the 
men well trained to their use, agreeably to the Ordnance Instruc- 
tions, he is to give his personal attention to the cleanliness and good 
appearance of the men ; to the examination of their clothing and 
bedding, and to the making out requisitions to supply their neces- 
sary wants at stated periods ; to the issuing of clothing to them, and 
to their converting materials drawn from the paymaster to the pur- 
pose for which they were required ; to observe that their clothing 
is neatly made, marked, and kept in good order, and to keep correct 
clothes lists. In inspecting clothing, it is to be done by calling a 
gun's crew at a time, and also in making out requisitions. 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 49 

Equipment Officer. 

EQUIPMENT OFFICER. 

422.. The duties of Equipment Officer of a vessel are to be per- 
formed, unless otherwise specially directed, by the Executive Officer, 
under direction of, and responsibility to, the Commanding Officer. 

423. -He will be provided with the necessary blanks and books, 
and allowed an additional writer to keep them. 

424. .When the vessel is placed in commission he will be fur- 
nished with Invoices in triplicate, signed by the Equipment Officer 
of the Yard, and approved by the Commandant, of all articles under 
the Bureau of Equipment and Eecruiting comprised in the Outfits 
and Stores of the vessels. 

425. -He will receive, take charge of, and cause to be fitted in 
place or properly stowed in suitable parts of the ship, all articles 
delivered to him upon the Invoices, and when satisfied that their 
character and amount corresponds with those therein set forth, he 
will give his receipt for them thereupon. These receipts will be 
approved by the Commanding Officer ; the original retained by the 
Equipment Officer of the vessel, the duplicate delivered to the Com- 
mandant for the Equipment Officer of the Yard, and the triplicate 
for the Bureau. 

426. -Whenever articles are thereafter received, whether from a 
Navy Yard, from other vessels or sources, or by purchase, he will be fur- 
nished with triplicate invoices in the same way by the officer from 
whom received, or who may purchase them, which will be acted 
upon in the same way. 

427- -If discrepancies occur they will be brought to the notice of 
the Commanding Officer, and adjusted before the receipts are signed. 

428. -He will immediately cause to be entered upon the equipment 
books all articles thus received, in the order and by the designation 
in and by which they appear on the Invoices. 

429. .He will, to the extent necessary, upou the authority of the 
Commanding Officer, issue for use the Outfits of the vessel as set 
forth in pages 1 to 17, inclusive, of " Invoices of Equipment/ 7 together 
with such articles of stores as axes, silver calls, marline spikes, the 
galley, cooking utensils, furniture, and the like, as may be necessary 
for the ship's purposes, and carry them forward on his books from 

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50 REGULATIONS FOE, THE 

Equipment Officer. 

quarter to quarter, as "issued for use." But such articles are uot to 
be " expended" until they are surveyed and condemned as lost, worn 
out, broken, or injured so as to be unfit for further service in the use 
for which they were issued. 

430. .He will see that all articles, whether issued for use or re- 
tained as "in store," are properly used and cared for, and will, from 
time to time, inspect them and take the necessary measures to in- 
sure their preservation from rust, decay, or other injury, and will 
issue articles "in store " only on proper requisition for use under the 
Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting, or transfer requisition to other 
Bureaus, and will take care that they are properly receipted for by 
the persons to whom they are delivered. 

431. -Articles delivered to be manufactured after being expended 
by their proper term as stores, will be taken upon his books by their 
proper name as manufactured articles, and issued for use as above 
directed. 

432.. All articles condemned by survey, after being expended by 
their proper names, will be taken up on the books as condemned 
articles, or by names, designating the uses to which they may be 
condemned. 

433. -He will be accountable to fhe Commanding Officer for the 
return into store, or transfer to a successor, of all articles remaining 
upon his books by whatever name designated, and for all expendi- 
tures made during his term of duty as Equipment Officer. 

434 . . He will file all Invoices on which articles have been received, 
all surveys on which articles have been condemned, and all requisi- 
tions and receipts for articles expended, and deliver them with the 
Equipment books and all articles remaining on hand or issued for 
use, to his successor, or to the Navy Yard at which the vessel may go 
out of commission at the end of the cruise, or to the officer or person 
to whom he may be directed to turn them over, by proper authority, 
and take triplicate receipts therefor. The duplicate to be sent to 
the Bureau, and the triplicate retained as his voucher. 

435. -In case of his transfer he will certify to their correctness to 
his successor, and take his receipts in triplicate therefor, as well as 
for stores remaining on hand and articles "issued for use." His suc- 
cessor may, however, thereafter take an inventory and report any 
discrepancies to the Commanding Officer. 



NAYY OF THE UNITED STATES. 51 

Navigator. 

436 . .At the final transfer at the end of the cruise, all articles will 
be surveyed, and their condition and amount ascertained, and the 
books audited at the Yard at which the vessel goes out of commis- 
sion. 

437. .The survey will report the condition of all articles returned 
into store, and in cases where articles are damaged or lost, whether 
such damage or loss is attributable to carelessness or neglect on the 
part of the Equipment Officer. And he will not receive his detach- 
ment until such cases have been adjusted. 

NAVIGATOR. 

438- -When it is possible, the Line Officer next in rank to the Ex- 
ecutive Officer shall be the Navigator. 

439. -He shall, at sea, ascertain and report daily to the Command- 
ing Officer the vessel's j>osition a t meridian, and make such other 
reports of x>osition, variation of the compass, &c, as the Command- 
ing Officer may require. 

440. -He is to have charge of, and must account for, all nautical 
instruments, books, charts, national flags, and signals. 

441. -He shall frequently examine the compasses, time glasses, 
log and lead lines, and thus see that they are constantly in proper 
order for service. 

442. .He shall examine the charts of all coasts which the vessel 
may visit, and note upon them any errors which he may discover, 
and inform the Commanding Officer of the same, who will report 
them to the Navy Department. 

443 . . When the vessel may be aj>proaehing any land or shoals, 
or entering any port or harbor, he shall be very attentive to the 
soundings, and he shall at all times inform the Comm antler of any 
danger to which he may think the vessel exposed, whether under 
charge of a pilot or not. 

444 ..He shall have charge of keeping the ship's log-book, and 
will see that all particulars are duly entered in it, according to such 
forms as are or may be prescribed, and he will, immediately after 
such entries, send it to the watch officers, that they may sign their 
names at the end of the remarks in their respective watches while 
the circumstances are fresh in their memories, and he shall take it 



52 REGULATIONS FOU THE 

Navigator. 

to the Commanding Officer for his inspection, immediately after 
noon of each. day. 

445. -There shall be entered on the log-slate and log-book, with 
minnte exactness, the following particnlars : 

1. The name and rank, or rating, of all persons who may join or 
be discharged from the vessel ; all transfers, deaths, and desertions ; 
the names of all persons made prisoners by an enemy, and of all ab- 
sent without leave ; the names of all passengers, with times of com- 
ing aboard and leaving; the direction of the wind, state of the 
weather, courses steered, and distances sailed ; the time when any 
particular evolution, exercise, or other service was performed ; the 
signal number of all signals made, the time when, and by what ves- 
sels, and to what vessels, they were made ; the nature and extent of 
all public punishments inflicted, with the name and crime of the 
offenders ; the rating and disrating of Petty Officers ; the result of 
all observations made to find the ship's place, and all dangers dis • 
covered in navigation. 

2. The grounding of the ship, and the loss of or serious injury to 
boats, spars, sails, rigging, and stores of any kind, with the circum- 
stances under which they happened, and the extent of the injury 
received. 

3. A particular account of all stores received, from whom re- 
ceived, or by whom furnished, and the department for which they 
were received. 

4. A particular account of all stores condemned by survey, or con- 
verted to any other purpose than that for which they were originally 
intended. 

5. A particular account of all stores lent, or otherwise sent out of 
the vessel, and by what authority it was done. 

6. All the marks and numbers of each cask or bale, which, on be- 
ing opened, is found to contain less than is specified by the invoice, 
or than it ought to contain, with the deficiency found. 

7. Every alteration made in the allowance of provisions, and by 
whose order. 

8. The employment of any hired vessel, her dimensions in ton- 
nage, the name of the master or owner, the number of her crew, 
how or for what purpose employed, by whose order, and the reasons 
for her employment. 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 53 

Navigator. 

9. The draught of water, light and loaded, as furnished at the 
navy yard ; and always on going into or leaving port the ship's 
draught is to be taken and entered on the log. 

44 6.. After the log has been signed by the officers of the watches 
no alteration will be made therein, except to correct some error, or 
supply some omission, and then only with the approbation of the 
Commanding Officer, and upon the recollection of the officer who 
had charge of the watch in which the alteration or addition is pro- 
posed, who shall then sign the same, if satisfied of its correctness. 

447 . . The navigator shall deliver to the Commanding Officer of 
the vessel, signed by himself, and, after careful comparison, certi- 
fied to be correct, a fair copy of the log-book, every six months, to 
be transmitted by the first safe opportunity to the Bureau of Navi- 
gation. 

448. .The original log-book will be kept by the vessel until she is 
paid off, when it shall be placed in charge of the Commanding 
Officer of the Yard, and by him transmitted to the Bureau of Navi- 
gation. 

449. .Besides the log-book, he is to keep a remark-book, in which 
all the hydrograx3hical information he can obtain is to be carefully 
inserted, as well as a description of the instruments he may em- 
ploy in any of the observations hereafter mentioned. , He is to de- 
termine as accurately as he can the various particulars relating to 
navigation of every place which the vessel may visit, entering the 
results in his remark-book, under the following heads : 

1. Latitude. 

2. Longitude. 

3. Variation of the compass. 

4. Time of high water immediately following new and full moon. 

5. Rise and fall of the tides at springs and neaps. 

6. Prevailing winds. 

7. Periods of the year at which the wet and dry seasons prevail, 
if any. 

8. Seasons at which hurricanes prevail* 

9. The temperature of the chronometer room at the time observa- 
tions are taken. 

The xDarticuiar spot at the place visited, to which latitude and lon- 
gitude refer, is to be carefully noted ; also, the number and nature 



54 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Navigator. 

of the observations, and the means by which they were made, 
whether the artificial or sea horizon was used ; and with reference 
to the longitude, if obtained with chronometers by means of meri- 
dian distances from another place, he is to state the nnmber em- 
ployed, their general character, the age of the rates nsed, or the 
interval since which they were last rated, with the longitude he 
has assumed of the place measured from. He is to observe the va- 
riation of the compass by amplitudes or azimuths, at least once 
every day, whether at sea or in port, excepting only when refitting 
in harbor. The azimuth compass is to be always placed, when 
practicable, in the same precise situation amidships, marking the 
point where each of the tripod legs stands ; and he is to take care 
that the direction of the ship's head at the time of observation 
shall be recorded, as well as the difference between the standard or 
azimuth and the steering compasses, by which precaution alone can 
the real course of the ship be regulated. These variations are to be 
daily inserted in columns at the end of his remark-book, along with 
the ship's place, and the direction of her head at the time of obser- 
vation. The local attraction is to be determined before the ship 
leaves the United States, as well as after any material change of 
latitude, and is then to be tabulated by him for every point of the 
compass, so that the corrections on each course may be readily ap- 
plied in working the ship's reckoning. In all places he is to ascer- 
tain the direction and velocity of the currents, the set and strength 
of the tides, with the limits of their rise and fall, and the time of 
high water of the tide which immediately follows the periods of the 
new and full moon. He is to describe as particularly as he can the 
appearances of foreign coasts, pointing out the remarkable objects 
by which they may be distinguished, so as to render a stranger cer- 
tain of recognizing his land fall. He is to apply for boats to sound 
and survey any shoals or harbors which have not been correctly 
laid down in the charts, and the results are to be projected on a 
large and intelligible scale. In his remark-book he is carefully to 
note all inaccuracies in any of the charts supplied to the ship. He 
is frequently to present this remark-book to the Commander for ex- 
amination, and on the first of January, in every year, he is to de- 
liver to him a correct copy of it accompanied by all the charts, 
plans, and vieivs of the coasts and headlands which he has made 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 55 

Navigator. 

during the past year, all of which the Commander will transmit by 
the first safe opportunity to his Commander-in-Chief to he for- 
warded to the Department. 

450.. He shall prepare, and, after it shall have been approved by 
his Commanding Officer, transmit to the Bureau of Navigation, from 
time to time, if i;)racticable, otherwise, at the end of the cruise, a skel- 
eton chart of the cruising ground; showing distinctly the track or 
tracks of the vessel, with the day, month, and year, noted during 
the entire cruise or period of time the vessel was absent from port 
or the United States ; to which must be appended remarks and notes 
bearing upon the winds, weather, currents of the ocean, and other 
phenomena of value to nautical science. 

451. .He shall keep a book, in which he will make all calculations 
connected with the navigation of the vessel. No erasures will be 
made, but the book shall be a complete record of all observations, 
computations and results, with the dates upon which the observa- 
tions and computations v were made. At the end of the cruise this 
book shall be sent to the Bureau of Navigation by the Commander 
of the vessel. 

452 . .He is, if ordered to a vessel before a stowage is commenced, 
to superintend, under the direction of the Commanding Officer of the 
Yard, or Commander of the vessel, as the case may be, the stowage 
of the ballast, water, provisions, and all other articles. 

453.. In stowing provisions he shall take care that the oldest be 
stowed so that they maybe first issued, breaking out and restowing 
those already on board if necessary for that purpose, unless other- 
wise directed. 

454.. When the stowage of the hold shall be completed, he will 
make an entry on the log-book, specifying particularly the quantity 
and arrangement of the ballast, the number, size and disposition of 
the tanks and casks, and of the quantity and stowage of provisions 
and other stores. 

455.. Accurate plans must be made of the stowage of the hold, 
which he shall insert in the log-book ; and if any material change 
should afterward be made in the stowage, the change must be noted, 
and new plans inserted in the log-book. 

456.. If the hold should be stowed at a Navy Yard, or private es- 
tablishment, under the direction of the Commander of the vessel, he 



56 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Midshipmen. 

■will furnish the latter with plans and descriptions for transmission 
to the Commandant of the Yard, or the Bureau of Construction. 

45 7 ..He is to visit the hold daily, and cable tiers and chain 
lockers weekly, or oftener, if necessary, and see that they are kept 
clear and in as good order as circumstances will admit. 

458 ..He will report the hold daily to the Executive Officer for 
inspection, at such times as the Commander shall appoint, and the 
cable tiers and chain lockers weekly, or oftener, as may he required. 

459. -He shall exercise a particular supervision over the ancliors 
and cables ; he shall see that they are properly secured at all times 
that the cables are distinctly marked, and that all necessary arrange- 
ments are made for getting under way, anchoring, mooring, un- 
mooring, slipping, or shifting parts of one cable to another ; for this 
purpose he will see that the shackle-pins can be removed readily. 

460. -He will be careful to prevent any waste or improper expen- 
diture of fuel or water, and he is to report daily, when at sea, to the 
Executive Officer, the quantity of each expended in the last 
' twenty-four hours, and the quantity remaining on hand. 

461 ..Should he be removed or suspended, he shall sign the log- 
book and deliver it to his successor, taking his receipt for the same, 
and for all other articles under his charge, and will deliver to the 
Commander a fair copy of the remark-book, made up to the day of 
his removal or suspension. 

462 ..He shall not keep watch except required to do so by order 
of the Commander of the vessel. 

MIDSHIPMEN. 

463 . . Midshipmen, while at the Naval Academy, will be governed 
by the rules of that institution. 

464.. If ordered to a cruising ship, they shall provide themselves 
with a sextant, or octant, a comparing watch, an approved treatise 
upon navigation, one on marine surveying, and with blank journals. 

465.. They are daily to ascertain the position of the ship when at 
sea, by observations and dead reckoning, and send the same to their 
Commanding Officer. 

466 . . They are to keep journals in such forms as may be prescribed, 
which they will present to the Commanding Officer for inspection, 
on the first day of every month, and they will at all times embrace 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 57 

Boatswain and Gunner. 

every opportunity of acquiring useful information which may be 
applicable to their profession as seamen and officers. 

467.. They shall attend regularly to the means of instruction 
which may be provided for them. 

468. .They will not be granted leave to go on shore unless their 
journals are kept uj), and they have copies of the watch, quarter, 
fire, and station bills, of separate quarter bills for their divisions, and 
they shall have given proper attention to their duties. 

BOATSWAIN AND GUNNER. 

4 69 ..They must, with the Yeoman, carefully examine all the ar- 
ticles belonging to, and all stores received for, their respective de- 
partments, and see that they are of good quality, that they agree in 
quantity with the invoice or bill sent with them, and that they are 
in good order, and must make immediate report to the Executive 
Officer of any defect or deficiency which they may discover. 

470. -They are responsible for all articles in their departments not 
in the immediate charge of the Yeoman, and particularly for the 
careful preservation of all tools or inxplenients issued by the Yeoman 
for the use of their departments. They will retain for survey all of 
these that may become worn out, or otherwise rendered unfit for 
further use, as their responsibility with regard to them will not 
cease until they have been formally disposed of by survey. 

471. -They shall request a survey upon all stores which may be 
inj ured, or become unfit for service, in their respective departments, 
and such as the surveying officers condemn shall be expended, pre- 
serving a copy of the survey as a voucher ; but if the survey shall 
direct articles to be converted to some other use, they shall be 
charged accordingly, and expended in the same manner as any other 
stores. 

472 . -They shall be particularly watchful, and make immediate re- 
port to the Executive Officer of any neglect or misconduct which they 
may discover in the Yeoman, or person having charge of their stores. 

473 . -When a ship is about to be dismantled, they are to be careful 
that all the articles belonging to their respective departments are 
properly secured and tallied, with their name and quantity, whether 
u serviceable," " requiring repairs," or u unserviceable," and that all 
precautions are taken to prevent their being in any manner injured. 



58 REGULATIONS FOE THE 

Boatstvain and Gunner. 

They will only receive credit according to the receipt given for them 
by the Naval Storekeeper, or other person into whose charge they 
may be delivered, or according to the report of the surveying officers 
duly appointed, and they will attend the survey which may be 
made, to ascertain the quantity of stores so returned by them, and 
will be called upon to account for any deficiency that may be found 
to exist. 

474.. They are to report daily, at morning inspection and at 8 p. m., 
to the Executive Officer, the state of all things in their respective 
departments. 

475 . .The Boatswain is to be generally upon deck in the day, and 
at all times both by day and night when any duty shall require all 
hands to be employed. He is, with his mates, to see that the men 
go quickly upon deck when called, and, that when there, they per- 
form their duty with alacrity. 

4 76.. He is, every day, before 7-J a. m,, and as much oftener as 
may be desirable, according to the service the ship is employed on, 
to examine the state of the rigging, to ascertain whether any part 
be chafed, or likely to give way, and to report to the Officer of the 
Deck the state in which he finds it. He is, at all times, to be care- 
ful that the anchors, booms, and boats be properly secured ; and he 
is to be very attentive to have ready a sufficient number of mats? 
plats, nippers, points, and gaskets, that no delay or inconvenience 
may be experienced when they are wanted. 

477 ..He shall be particularly careful that the masts of the ship 
are not crippled or strained in setting up the stays and rigging, and 
that the masts retain the same angle with the keel after the stays 
and rigging are set up that they did when they were only wedged. 

478 . . He is to be very attentive when working up junk that every 
part of it is converted to such purposes as may be ordered. 

479 ..When the ship is preparing for battle, he is to be very par- 
ticular in seeing that everything necessary for repairing the rigging 
is in its proper place, that the men stationed to that service may 
know where to find immediately what may be wanted. 

480. .Besides the duties assigned to the Gunner in the " Ordnance 
Instructions," he is to have charge of the anchor-buoys and life- 
buoys, to see that they are at all times in good order, and the latter 
ready to be dropped into the water at a .moment's warning. 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 59 

Mates — Fleet Engineer. 

481. -He is to report to the Navigator for entry into the log-book, 
after an. action, or after any exercise in which powder, or powder 
and bhot are used, the quantity of each expended, and is to sign the 
entry in attestation of its correctness. 

482. .He is responsible for the good condition of everything per- 
taining to the guns and their equipments, magazines, shell-rooms? 
shot and shell, small-arms, &c, and he is to satisfy himself that they 
are constantly in good order and condition. 

MATES. 

483. .The duties of this class of officers will be such as the Com- 
mander of the vessel may direct; when capable, they may be de- 
tailed as mates of decks, holds, and the like. 

FLEET ENGINEER. 

484. -When a Chief Engineer is detailed to discharge the duties 
of Fleet Engineer, he will be attached to the flag-ship. His duties 
will be as follows : 

Under the orders of the Commander-in-Chief — 

1. To exercise a general supervision over all the engineers of the 
fleet or squadron. 

2. To acquaint himself with the different kinds of engines in use 
in the squadron, and to recommend that all means are used to keep 
them in the highest state of efficiency. 

3. To make, under orders of the Commander-in-Chief, frequent in- 
spections of machinery, and to decide upon all ordinary repairs. 

4. To recommend surveys when the imperfections or accidents are 
serious, and to make reports where carelessness is suspected. 

5. To see that every vessel is provided with the necessary tools, 
stores, and spare parts of machinery, and that every engine and 
boiler is cared for properly. 

6. To examine the coal used, and report to the Commander-in- 
Chief if there is any falling off in quality, or any undue dampness 
liable to produce spontaneous combustion. 

7. To see that the coal is properly stored at the different depots, 
and that there is at all times a sufficient quantity on hand to meet 
the probable wants of the squadron. 



60 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Chief Engineer. 

8. To make frequent reports to the Commander-in-Chief of tlie con- 
dition of the engineer's department of every vessel in the squadron. 

9. To examine all returns and requisitions made by the engineers 
of the fleet or squadron, and to forward them promptly, with such 
remarks as he may deem necessary. 

10. To recommend to the Commander-in-Chief such measures as 
will, in his opinion, promote efficiency, economy and uniformity in 
his department of the service. 

11. And, finally, to perform such other duties relating to his posi- 
tion as shall be assigned to him by the Commander-in-Chief. 

485. .He will not make an inspection or an examination of any 
kind on board any vessel of the squadron, without the order to do 
so, in writing, from the Commander-in-Chief. 

486.. Such order must be presented to the Commander of the 
vessel on board which the inspection or examination is to take place, 

487. -The detail of officers of his corps for any service, will be 
made by the Chief of Staff. 

CHIEF ENGINEER. 

488. -A Chief Engineer, on being ordered to a ship, will make 
himself acquainted with all parts of the machinery and boilers, the 
coal-bunkers and store-rooms ; he will examine carefully all parts of 
the machinery and everything pertaining to it, and report to the 
Executive Officer anything that is defective. 

489- -He will cause the assistant engineers, on their joining the 
vessel, to become familiar with all the cocks, valves, pipes, and the 
different parts of the machinery and boilers. 

490. -He will see that he has the requisite amount of stores, of 
good quality, on board, and that they are stored away in good con- 
dition. 

491 ..He will provide a supply of oatmeal, to be issued to the 
firemen and coal-heavers, without charge, at such times and in such 
quantities as the Commanding Officer may direct. 

492 ..He will keep a strict account of, and be responsible for, the 
expenditure of the coals, stores, duplicate pieces, and all articles in 
the engineer department ; and he will examine each day's expendi- 
ture and approve it by his signature. 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 61 

Chief Engineer. 

493. -He will make out the watch, quarter, fire, aud cleaning bills 
for the engineer department, assigning to each person his proper 
station and duty, and submit the same to the Executive Officer of 
the vessel for his approval and signature, which bills shall then be 
hung up in some conspicuous place where all persons in the Depart- 
ment may refer to them. He will see that the prescribed duties are 
performed in a proper manner, and will report all neglect of duty or 
other breach of discipline in the fire or engine room to the Executive 
Officer. 

494. -He will see that the fires are never lighted, nor hauled after 
being lighted, without the order of the Commanding Officer ; and 
that the engines are never turned, after being stopped, except in 
obedience to signal, or by permission of the Officer of the Deck. 

495 ..He will report to the Executive Officer any accident or de- 
fect that may occur to the machinery, boilers, or their dependencies, 
and at meridian of each day report the quantity of coals consumed, 
the revolutions made by the engines, and the average revolutions 
per minute for the last twenty-four hours ; also, the quantity of coal 
remaining on hand; and if at any time, in his judgment, the ma- 
chinery is driven too hard, or undue strain put upon any of its parts 
by stress of weather, motion, or position of the vessel, he will report 
the same to the Executive Officer, noting such import, and the causes 
for it, in the steam-log. 

496. -He shall make a daily personal examination of all parts of 
the vessel occupied by the engines and their dependencies, and will 
report them ready for inspection to the Executive Officer at such 
times as may be directed by the Commander of the vessel. 

497. -He shall, at the setting of the watch in the evening, report 
the condition of the engines, boilers, and their dependencies, to the 
Executive Officer. 

498 ..He will exercise a vigilant supervision over every part of 
the steam department, and see that it is kept in good order ; he will 
be particular that the steam-pumps, hose, and other means for ex- 
tinguishing fire, are ready for immediate use ; that the water in the 
boilers is not carried to an improper density; and that the coals and 
stores are used to the greatest advantage. 

499 . . He shall afford every facility, and encourage in every way 
the Assistant Engineers to improve themselves in their profession. 



62 KEGTUEATIONS FOR THE 

Chief Engineer. 

5 00.. He will examine the bunkers each time the ship arrives in 
port ; or oftener, to see if the amount of coals corresponds with the 
log, and if any discrepancy appears, he will report the same imme- 
diately to the Executive Officer, and note it on the log. 

501.. He will, on the discontinuance of steaming, with the per- 
mission of the Commanding Officer, clean and repair,- at once, the 
engines and their dependencies. 

502.. He will cause the Firemen to he instructed so as to qualify 
them for managing the engines and dependencies with safety, in 
case accident, or other causes, should prevent the attendance of 
the Engineer. 

5 03. -He will cause the temperature of the coal-hunkers to be 
ascertained twice in each watch, and have the result reported to the 
Officer of the Deck. 

504.. Whenever a distilling apparatus is fitted on board a steam- 
ship, he is to take charge of it, and will be held responsible for its 
being kept in proj>er repair and condition. 

505 ..A steam-log is always to be kept when the vessel is moved 
by steam, which log is to be signed in the column of remarks by the 
Engineers of the respective watches at the ex}Diration of their watch, 
and at noon of each day by the Senior Engineer of the vessel. The 
steam log-book is to be handed to the Commander of the vessel daily. 
At the end of each quarter he shall send to the Commanding Officer 
of the vessel a fair copy of the steam log-book, certified by his own 
signature. 

5 06.. He will take the utmost care in the arrangement of stores, 
the use of lights and fires, and the adoption of every precautionary 
measure to prevent the danger from fire to which steamers are so 
much exposed. 

507 . . He will carefully note in the steam-log the draught of water 
of the vessel and immersion of the bucket-boards just before going 
to sea, and on arriving in port, and frequently when receiving coal 
and other stores. 

508 ..The Chief Engineer will make a quarterly report to accom- 
pany the quarterly synopsis of the steam-log, (Appendix, form No. 
2,) in which he will detail the breakage or other casualties of the 
machinery, the causes thereof as far as he may be able to ascertain 
with certainty, the time expended in repairing them and in adjust- 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 63 

Ass istan t Engin eers. 

ing the machinery, and whether done by his department on board 
or by workmen from the shore. He will also give his opinion of the 
present condition of the machinery, mentioning particularly the 
cylinders and their valves, the main journals, the connecting-rod 
journals, the steam bearings, the pumps, the condensers and boilers, 
and the paddle-wheels or screw, to which he will add his observa- 
tions as to their sufficiency and efficiency. In the event of any ex- 
perimental machinery being on board, or any horse machinery, or 
unusual arrangement, he will particularly describe it and its mode 
of action, and give the results therefrom and his opinion on its 
merits. He will state the maximum speed of the vessel under steam 
alone in smooth water, that can be sustained for twelve consecutive 
hours, with the machinery in its existing condition, and give the 
necessary data in connection therewith, such as the boiler pressure, 
number of revolutions of the engines per minute, vacuum in the 
condenser, number of holes of throttle-valve open, point of cutting 
off steam, temperatures, pounds of coal consumed per hour, number 
of tons of coal on board the vessel, indicated horse-power, &c. He 
will state the number of engineers, of first and second class firemen, 
and coal-heavers attached to the vessel, and also the number of tons 
of coal that the bunkers will contain. He will add such observa- 
tions on the machinery and vessel as his experience may suggest, 
with a view to their correct appreciation and value. A copy of the 
tabular synopsis and of the report is to be pasted into each quar- 
terly steam-log, and another is to be forwarded, through the pre- 
cribed channels, to the Department. 

ASSISTANT ENGINEERS. 

509.. When there is no Chief Engineer on board, the duties 
assigned to him will devolve on the senior Assistant Engineer. 

510 . .Assistant Engineers are at all times faithfully and zealously 
to carry into prompt execution all orders they may receive from the 
Engineer Officer in charge on board, or others, their superiors ; and 
they are to be specially careful in the management of the engines, 
boilers, and their dependencies ; to adhere strictly to the directions 
of the Engineer in charge, and to report to him instantly on discov- 
ering anything going wrong about them. 



64 KEGRTLATIONS FOE, THE 

Surgeon of the Fleet 

511.. When the engines are in operation, the Engineer of the 
watch will execute promptly all orders he may receive from the 
Officer of the Deck, though he must be careful in so doing that no 
risk of injury is incurred. 

5 12.. He will make hourly reports to the Officer of the Deck 
whether the engines and their dependencies, the force-pumps, hose, 
and all other means for extinguishing fire, are in good order, and 
that the iDumps and hose are ready for immediate use. Should any- 
thing occur to require a change in the orders under which the En- 
gineer is then acting, or should special attention be required to any 
object in order to insure safety or more efficiency, he will report the 
same to the Officer of the Deck immediately. 

5 13 ..Should it be necessary from any cause to stop the engines 
suddenly, he will report the fact to the Officer of the Deck ; if not 
possible to do so in time before stopping them, he will report after- 
wards his reasons therefor and the probable length of time they 
will be stopped. He will also inform the Chief Engineer immedi- 
ately. 

5 14.. He will note hourly on the steam-log all the information 
which the columns in it require, and place in the column of " re- 
marks" full information of the state of the weather and sea, and all 
accidents to, or defects in, the engines or their dependencies, the 
manner of their working, the quality of the coal, and any other cir- 
cumstances which may be useful for determining the powers and 
qualities of the vessel and the engines under the various circum- 
stances to which they may be exposed. 

515 . . He will be particularly careful to prevent the waste of coals, 
oil, tallow, and all other stores in the Engineer's Department. 

516. -In the absence of the senior Engineer Officer belonging to 
the vessel, the one remaining on board highest in rank or seniority 
is to be held responsible for the good order of the engine-room, and 
for the proper discharge of all the duties connected therewith. 

SURGEON OF THE FLEET. 

517. .In addition to the duties prescribed by law, and by the a In- 
structions for the government of medical officers," the Surgeon of 
the Fleet will be required : 



NAYY OF THE UNITED STATES. 65 

Surgeons. 

Under the orders of the Commander-in-Chief— 

1. To inquire into the practice of all the Surgeons, or persons act- 
ing as such, in the fleet or squadron to which he may be attached, 
and will report to the Commander-in-Chief any neglects which he 
may discover. 

2. To suggest to the Commander-in-Chief, for his consideration 
and decision, the most proper measures for preventing or checking 
disease, or for promoting the comfort of the sick or wounded in the 
fleet. 

3. When required by the Commander-in-Chief to specify those 
vessels which may appear, from the state of the health of the crews, 
least M for active service, or most in want of refreshments. 

4. To keep a medical journal of the health of the fleet or squadron, 
from which he shall report to the Medical Bureau. 

5. After an engagement to require a report of killed and wounded 
from the Surgeons of all the vessels engaged, which he will embody 
in a general report and forward it to the Commander-in-Chief 
through his immediate Commander. 

6. And, finally, to perform such other duties relating to his posi- 
tion as shall be assigned to him by the Commander-in-Chief. 

5 18.. He will not make an inspection or an examination of any 
kind on board any vessel of the squadron without the order to do 
so, in writing, from the Commander-in-Chief. 

519.. Such order must be presented to the Commander of the 
vessel on board which the inspection or examination is to take 
place. | 

520.. The detail of officers of his corps for any service, will be 
made by the Chief-of-Staff. 

SURGEONS. 

5 21.. The Surgeon or senior Medical Officer ordered to a vessel 
will, in addition to the duties prescribed in the "Instructions for 
the government of medical officers,' 7 examine the dispensary, medical 
store-rooms, and sick bay ; to' see that every preparation is made 
for the reception of stores and medicines, and for the proper care of 
the sick and wounded. In case of any defect in the arrangements 
he will report it immediately to the Commanding Officer. 
5NR 



66 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Surgeons. 

522 . .The sick bay, dispensary, and medical store-rooms are under 
Ms immediate charge. He will see that they are kept in proper 
condition, and will report them daily for inspection to the Execu- 
tive Officer, at such times as the Commander of the vessel may direct. 

523.. He will he particularly attentive to the comfort and clean- 
liness of all patients under his professional care. 

524. .He will report to the Commanding Officer daily the names 
and condition of the sick, according to such forms as may be pre- 
scribed ; and will, at the same time, suggest any measures he may 
deem important for the health of the crew, and will cause to be de- 
posited daily in the binnacle a list of the officers and other persons 
whose condition requires that they should be excused from duty. 

525 ..He will take every precaution to prevent the introduction 
or progress of any infectious disease, and make immediate report to 
the Commander of any probable danger from or the appearance of 
any such disease. 

526.. He is carefully to examine the crew as soon as practicable 
after joining the ship, for the purpose. of reporting to the Command- 
ing Officer any necessity that may exist for vaccination, which, if 
possible, is to be performed before the sailing of the vessel. 

52 7.. He will be allowed to his exclusive use a convenient store- 
room for the preservation of articles in his charge, and will, with 
approval of the Commanding Officer, be allowed proper persons, in 
addition to the established attendants, should they be necessary, to 
assist in the care of the sick. 

528. .He is at all times to have in readiness everything necessary 
for the relief of the wounded. 

529.. On the probability of an engagement he will cause a suffi- 
cient number of tourniquets to be distributed to the officers in dif- 
ferent parts of the ship, and see that all persons stationed with him, 
and such others as may be designated, are instructed in the proper 
mode of using them. 

530 ..He will cause the boats attending the ship with articles of 
food for sale to be examined, and if any contain articles the use of 
which would, in his opinion, be injurious to the crew, he will repre- 
sent the same to the Executive Officer. 

531 ..The journal of his daily practice shall be subject to the 
inspection of the Surgeon of the Fleet, and be forwarded, as directed, 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 67 

Passed and other Assistant Surgeons. 

for correspondence and other reports, to the Navy Department, at 
the expiration of the cruise. 

532.. Whenever any person on board shall receive any wound or 
injury which may probably entitle him to make application for a 
pension, he shall report the same to the Commander in writing, be- 
fore the person be removed or discharged from the vessel. 

533 ..When practicable, such persons who may be sent to a hos- 
pital or a hospital vessel are to be accompanied by a medical officer, 
and the Surgeon will send with them a statement of their diseases or 
injuries, with a synopsis of treatment, according to such forms as 
may be prescribed by the Navy Department. 

534.. He shall inspect the provisions for the crew, and report to 
the Commanding Officer when he may discover any that are un- 
sound. He will also cause the purity of the water to be tested 
before it is received into the tanks, and he will make known to the 
Commanding Officer any want of care or cleanliness in the prepara- 
tion of food for the crew, or any instance of personal neglect with 
regard to it, of which he may be cognizant. He will make known 
to the Commanding Officer everything which may come to his 
knowledge as conducive to, or militating against, the general health 
and comfort of the ship's company. 

535 . .After battle, he shall make out in duplicate a careful report 
of killed and wounded, one copy of which he will send to the Com- 
mander of the vessel, and the other shall be forwarded through the 
Commanding Officer to the Surgeon of the Fleet. 



PASSED AND OTHER ASSISTANT SURGEONS. 

53 6 ..They shall perform all the professional duties which may 
be required from them, and conform to the instructions which may 
be given by the Surgeon of the vessel to which they may be attached, 
they will be unremitting in their attentions to the comfort and 
cleanliness of the sick, and exact from those under their direction a 
rigid performance of their duties. 

5 3 7.. Assistant Surgeons, whether passed or otherwise, shall 
attend personally, to see that medicines are properly weighed or 
measured, and labelled for distribution to the sick. 



68 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Fleet Paymaster. 

538. .In the absence of the Surgeon, the passed or other Assistant 
Surgeon, oldest in commission, will perform all the duties of the 
Surgeon. 

FLEET PAYMASTER. 

539.. When a Paymaster is detailed to discharge the duties of 
Fleet Paymaster, he will be attached to the flag-ship. His duties 
will be as follows : ^ 

Under the orders of the Commander-in-Chief— 

1. To exercise a general supervision over all the Paymasters of 
the fleet or squadron. 

2. To keep an account of the stores on board the store-vessels of 
the squadron, and at depots on shore within the limits of the Com- 
mander-in-Chief's command. 

3. To receive and classify the returns and requisitions of Pay- 
masters of store-vessels and depots, as well as of all other vessels of 
the squadron, and to receive, examine, and forward to the Depart- 
ment, Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, and Fourth Auditor of the 
Treasury, all returns and reports required to be made to them, 
taking care that the returns shall be in proper form, and accompa- 
nied by the required vouchers. 

4. To keep the Commander-in-Chief informed of the quantities 
and condition of the Paymaster's stores in the fleet or squadron. 

5. To distribute promptly the orders, circulars, and decisions of 
the Department, Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, Fourth Auditor 
of the Treasury, and Commander-in-Chief, in all matters relating to 
his department. 

6. To draw all money for the fleet or squadron, except in cases of 
actual necessity when vessels are absent from the flag-ship, and to 
pay out the same on the requisitions of the different vessels duly 
approved by the Commander-in-Chief. 

7. All returns and requisitions made by the Pay Officers of the 
fleet or squadron are to pass through his hands, unless from his 
absence injury to the public service will ensue by delay. 

8. And, finally, to perform such other duties relating to his posi- 
tion as shall be assigned to him by the Commander-in-Chief. 

540 . . He will not make an inspection or an examination of any 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 69 

Paymasters, 

kind, on board any vessel of the squadron, without the order to do 
so, in writing, from the Commander-in-Chief. 

541 ..Such order must be presented to the Commander of the 
vessel on board which the inspection or examination is to take place. 

542.. The detail of officers of his corps for any service will be 
made by the Chief-of-Staff. 

PAYMASTERS. 

543 . . The Paymaster, when ordered to a vessel, will, in addition 
to the duties prescribed in the " Instructions for the government of 
Inspectors in charge of stores, Naval Storekeepers, Paymasters, and 
Assistant Pay mast ers," and in the " Rules in regard to the transac- 
tion of business at the office of the Fourth Auditor," carefully ex- 
amine the bread-rooms, store-rooms, and issue-room, and report im- 
mediately to the Commanding Officer any defect in their arrange- 
ment or construction that he may discover. 

544.. He will make requisitions for money, and for such pro- 
visions, clothing, small stores, and other articles, as may be needed ; 
but such requisitions are at all times to be subject to the approval 
of the Commanding Officer of the vessel, and the revision aud ap- 
proval of the senior officer present in command. 

545.. When he shall present a requisition for money, for the ap- 
proval of his Commanding Officer, or such Commanding Officer shall 
direct him to prepare a requisition for his approval, the Paymaster 
shall present a statement of the amount of public money then in 
his possession ; and the Commanding Officer shall not direct or ap- 
prove a requisition for a larger sum than may appear to be neces- 
sary for the public interests, in addition to such unexpended bal- 
ance as may have been reported already on hand. 

546. .If a requisition of a Paymaster for money require the ap- 
proval of an officer superior or senior to his immediate Command- 
ing Officer, it is hereby made the duty of such superior or senior to 
exact of the Commanding Officer of the vessel or navy yard to which 
the Paymaster may belong, a written statement of the amount of 
money reported to be in the hands of the Paymaster, and also speci- 
fjuig the particular objects and amounts under their appropriate 
heads of appropriation for which the money is wanted. 



70 REGULATIONS FOR THE 



Paymasters. 



547. .In all cases where a Paymaster shall have received, or shall 
have been duly authorized or directed to pay over any public money, 
without the previous knowledge or sanction of his immediate Com- 
manding Officer, it shall be the duty of such Paymaster to report 
forthwith to his Commanding Officer the amount so received or paid, 
and the authority under which he acted. 

548 . . No money which may be placed in charge of a Paymaster 
by order of, or authority from, his commanding or other superior 
officer, or of the Treasury or Navy Department, is to be used or paid 
away by him without the sanction or approval of either his immedi- 
ate Commanding Officer, the Commander of the squadron or station 
to which he belongs, the Fourth Auditor of the Treasury, the Second 
Comptroller of the Treasury, or the Secretary of the Navy. 

549 . . Whenever pro visions, or any other articles for which the 
Paymaster is responsible, are sent out of the vessel, he will procure 
from the Commander an order in writing, that a proper account of 
and receipt for them may be taken. 

550.. He shall report to the Commanding Officer any articles 
which may be received in his department that he may consider of 
improper quality, deficient in quantity, or requiring additional 
means for their preservation. 

551 . . He will make no changes upon the muster-roll of the vessel 
unless he shall receive information from the Commanding Officer of 
the promotion, resignation, dismissal, or death, or an order for the 
discharge, transfer, or change of rating, of any person borne upon it. 

5 5 2.. The accounts of men transferred will be made out in con- 
formity to the regulations of the Treasury Department, and must 
accompany the men. They are to be sent by the Paymaster making 
the transfer to the Paymaster of the vessel, navy yard, or station to 
which the transfer is made, who will, after comparing them, receipt 
one copy and return it to the Paymaster who made the transfer, as 
a voucher for the settlement of his accounts. The transfer of ac- 
counts must, in all cases, be made through the Commanding Officers, 

553 ..The Paymaster will only issue clothing and small stores 
and money to Petty Officers and persons of inferior ratings, in such 
quantities or sums, and at such times, as shall be directed in writ- 
ing by the Commanding Officer ; and all issues made shall be re- 
ceipted for, or certified to, at the time, in the presence of a com- 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 71 

Paymasters. 

mission or warrant officer, and the receipts be witnessed or certi- 
fied by him. 

554 ..Whenever it is absolutely necessary upon foreign stations 
to purchase clothing, he shall take care that the articles be, as 
nearly as possible, of the same kind and quality as those furnished 
by the United States ; and no more shall be purchased than shall 
be sufficient to meet the existing exigency. 

555 ..When articles are furnished packed in bales, packages, or 
casks, for preservation, which cannot be opened without injury, 
they need not be opened to ascertain their contents, but the Pay- 
master will receipt for them according to their marks. And when- 
ever they may be opened it shall be in the presence of an officer, 
and their contents then compared with the invoice, and, if found to 
vary from it, a survey shall be held to authenticate the facts. 

556. -Articles of clothing which shall be found damaged by reg- 
ular survey may be valued by the surveying officers, and issued by 
the Paymaster in the same manner as other clothing, at the re- 
duced prices fixed by the surveying officers. 

557 . -He will report the condition of the store-rooms, of which he 
keeps the keys, to the Executive Officer daily, at such times as the 
Commander of the vessel may direct. 

558. -The messes of the ship's company may, with the approba- 
tion of the Commanding Officer, relinquish one complete ration in 
a mess of eight, and two in messes of not less than fourteen per- 
sons, for not less than three months, unless sooner detached, or 
unless their terms of service should expire in less than three months ; 
and they may receive the established value in money from the Pay- 
master when in port, at such times (not oftener than once a month) 
as the Commanding Officer may direct. 

559 . .He shall not pay money to any person in debt to the United 
States, except for stopped rations. 

560 ..He shall make no change in the daily allowance of pro- 
visions, except by the written order of the Commanding Officer. 

561 ..He will make monthly reports to the Commanding Officer 
of all expenditure of provisions, and quarterly reports of the ex- 
penditures of money, clothing, and small-stores in his department, 
and of the quantity of each kind remaining on board, and the length 
of time for which there is a supply. 



72 REGULATIONS FOR THE 



Paymasters. 



562.. He shall draw and negotiate all bills of exchange, in eon- 
formity with such instructions as the Secretary of the Navy may- 
give upon the subject. 

563 ..He shall report quarterly, or oftener if required, to the 
Commanding officer of the vessel, the expiration of service of the 
men which will occur in each subsequent month in each rating, 
giving the number only in each rating. (Form No. 20, Appendix.) 

564. -Having received the effects of any officer, or other person 
who may have died, deserted, or been captured, together with an 
inventory of the same, he shall carefully preserve them until directed 
by the Commanding Officer to deliver them to the owner, his heirs, 
or representatives, or to sell by public auction the effects of desert- 
ers, or persons who may have died in debt to the United States. 

565 . . When the stores on hand will admit of it, without an undue 
reduction of any article, he will, when ordered by the Commanding 
Officer, issue to officers' messes such articles of the public stores as 
they may require for their own use on board ship, at ration prices. 

5 66.. Whenever a Pay Agent shall be authorized to make ad- 
vances of pay to officers bound on a cruise, it shall be the duty of the 
Paymaster of the vessel to furnish to such agent, as his guide, a cor- 
rect list, signed by himself and approved by the Commanding Officer, 
of all the officers entitled to an advance of pay, which list must 
exhibit their names, rank, and yearly pay. 

5 6 7.. Where there is no Pay Agent, traveling expenses incurred 
by an officer under an order of the Navy Department, or Senior Com- 
manding Officer, shall be paid by the Paymaster upon the order of 
the Commanding Officer of the station. 

5 68.. The Paymaster will furnish clothing and small-stores to 
marines when embarked, upon a requisition signed by the Com- 
manding Officer of the Marine Guard, and approved by the Com- 
manding Officer of the vessel. 

5 69.. He will furnish to the Paymaster of the Marine Corps a 
statement of the account of any marine whose name is borne upon 
his books, who may die, desert, or be transferred to a shore station. 

570.. When attached to a receiving- vessel, he shall receipt for 
all recruits considered fit for service, and certify that he has charged 
to them respectively the amounts rendered as advance by the Re- 
cruiting Officer. 



NAYY OF THE UNITED STATES. 73 

Passed Assistant and Assistant Paymasters — Chaplains. 

5 71.. He shall preserve as vouchers all orders given by Com- 
manding Officers of receiving-vessels to furnish clothing or small- 
stores to persons indebted to the United States. 

5 72.. In foreign ports where a Paymaster in charge of stores is 
stationed, whether on shore or on board a stationary storeship, all 
requisitions for stores will be made upon him and all purchases in 
open market will be made by him, unless otherwise directed by the 
Commander of the squadron. 

573 ..The descriptive lists attached to certificates of death, cer- 
tificates of ordinary disability, and certificates of pension, are 
always to be signed by the Paymaster in charge of the accounts of 
the person in whose case the certificate issues. 

PASSED ASSISTANT AND ASSISTANT PAYMASTERS. 

5 74.. Passed Assistant and Assistant Paymasters, in the dis- 
charge of their duties, are to be governed by the Instructions to 
Paymasters. 

chaplains 

575 . . The Chaplain is to perform divine service and to offer pray- 
ers when duly ordered by the Commanding Officer. 

5 76.. He is, with the consent of the Senior Medical Officer, to 
visit the sick and afford them consolation. 

577 ..He is to instruct in the principles of the Christian religion 
the boys and such other persons as the Commander of the vessel 
may commit to his care. 

5 78 ..Should there be no schoolmaster on board, he is to apply to 
the Commanding Officer to detail an intelligent and well-disposed 
person of the crew to instruct, under his direction, the boys of the 
vessel, in reading, writing, and the elementary rules of arithmetic ; 
and he is frequently to examine the boys, and report from time to 
time to the Commanding Officer those whom he may find to be 
diligent and well-disposed, in order that they may be suitably en- 
couraged and rewarded. 

5 79... He is to make to his Commanding Officer, on the first of 
January, April, July, and October, a report of the duties performed 



74 REGULATIONS FOB THE 



Professors of Mathematics — Carpenters and Sailmakers. 

by him during the previous three months, and also a condensed re- 
port of the kind at the end of cruise. 



PROFESSORS OF MATHEMATICS. 

580 .. If ordered to duty on board ship, the Professor of Mathe- 
mathics is carefully to attend to the tuition of the Midshipmen, 
should any be on board, and such others as may be placed under 
his instruction by the Commanding Officer, and will report weekly 
to the latter their attendance, proficiency, and conduct. 

581.. He shall present to the Commanding Officer, made up to 
the last days of March, June, September, and December, reports of 
the attendance and proficiency of those whom he has instructed, 
for transmission to the Secretary of the Navy. 

CARPENTERS AND SAILMAKERS. 

582.. The Carpenter and Sailmaker are to regard the general in- 
structions contained in the paragraphs relating to Boatswains and 
Gunners as applicable to themselves. 

583. .When the vessel is at sea, the Carpenter is, every day, be- 
fore half-past seven a. m., and as much oftener as may be desirable, 
according to the service the ship is employed on, to examine the 
masts and yards, and to report to the Officer of the Deck their state. 

584.. In ships of two or more decks, he is frequently to examine 
the lower deck ports, to see that they are properly lined ; and when 
they are barred in, he is to see that they are all properly secured. 

585.. He is to be particularly careful in keeping the punips and 
hose in good order, always having at hand whatever may be neces- 
sary for their prompt and efficient use. 

586 ..He is to keep the boats, ladders, and gratings in as good 
condition as possible, always reporting to the Executive Officer 
every damage they may sustain, as soon as he discovers it. 

587. .He is to keep always ready, for immediate use, shot-plugs, 
and every other article necessary for stopping shot-holes and repair- 
ing other damage in battle. 

588. -He is frequently to examine the sides and decks of the ship, 
and will report to the Executive Officer when calking is required. 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 75 

Yeomen. 

589- -When the ship is going into port, he is to prepare as correct 
an account as possible of the defects of the hull, masts, and yards of 
the ship, and the repairs she may stand in need of. 

590. -The Sailmaker is, every day, before half-past seven a. in., 
and as much oftener as the service on which the ship is employed 
may render desirable, to examine the sails in use, and report to the 
Officer of the Deck their condition, 

591. -Before the sails are received on board, he is to examine 
them carefully, and report to the Executive Officer, should he dis- 
cover any defects. He is to examine the sail-rooms frequently, to 
see that the sails are kept perfectly dry and free from vermin. He 
is to keep the sails properly tallied, and so stowed thathe may be 
able to find easily any one wanted. When sails are to be landed, he 
is to see that they are dry, well made up, and tallied. 

ARTICLE IY. 
Petty Officers and Crew. 

Section 1. — Yeomen. 

592. .The Yeoman shall receipt and be responsible for all stores 
in the Boatswain's, Carpenters, and Sailinaker's departments, and 
for all such in the Gunner's department as may be placed under his 
charge in the general store-room. 

593. -He shall see that all the regulations respecting lights in the 
store-room are strictly observed, and that every precaution is taken 
to guard against fire or other accidents; he must never suffer private 
stores of any kind to be kept in the store-room without written 
orders to that effect from the commander. 

594. -He shall keep the accounts, according to the forms which 
are or may be prescribed, of all receipts, expenditures, conversions, 
or transfers of stores in the respective departments, specifying the 
time and place, and the person from whom the articles were re- 
ceived, and to whom and for what purpose they were delivered, 
and, if converted to other purposes than those for which they were 
received, by whose order. 

595. -He shall present the accounts of receipts and expenditures 
weekly to the Executive Officer of the vessel for examination. 



76 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Masters-at-Arms. 

596 ..He shall exhibit the abstract expense-books to the Com- 
manding Officer within the first week of each month, that he may 
canse the same to be compared with his own, and, if fonnd correct, 
the Commander shall approve the same, as a voucher for the Yeo- 
man's accounts. 

597. -He shall, when a ship is to be paid off, or placed in ordinary, 
present to the Commander his expense-books, to be returned into 
the Navy store, and an abstract statement of the total quantities of 
the respective articles which may have been received and expended 
in each year during the cruise, and which may then remain on hand, 
or have been returned into store, as shown by his expense-books ; 
and the Commander shall forward the same to the proper bureaus 
of the Navy Department, and shall state whether the quantities re- 
ported by the Yeoman's expense-books correspond with the quanti- 
ties actually on hand, or returned into store, as ascertained by sur- 
vey ; and if there should be any difference, he will note the same ; 
and, if in his power, will state the probable cause of such difference. 

598- -Unless ordered by the Secretary of the Navy, the Yeoman 
shall not receive more than three-fourths of his pay until the stores 
in his charge shall have been examined and found correct, and all 
losses shall be charged to his pay. 

Section 2. — Masters-at-Arms. 

599.. The Master-at-Arms, being the Chief of Police, must exer- 
cise a strict surveillance over the conduct of the crew, particularly 
when upon the berth-deck. When there is no officer in charge of 
the berth-deck, he will be considered in charge, and must be obeyed 
accordingly ; he will superintend the berth-deck messes, maintain 
order and cleanliness, and report to the Officer of the Deck any vio- 
lation of the" regulations which may come to his knowledge ; he will 
see the mess-bills made out on the last day of each month. 

600. -He is to keep an account of the offenses committed by, and 
punishments awarded to, Petty Officers and persons of inferior 
ratings, and, at 9 a. m.. daily, to furnish the Executive Officer with 
a report of persons confined for misconduct, stating their offenses, 
manner, and date of confinement. 

601. -In case of fire, or any sudden danger, he shall release any of 



NAYY OF THE UNITED STATES. 77 



Petty Officers Generally. 



the crew who may be confined, and will instantly report to the Ex- 
ecutive Officer that they are so released. 

602. -He is to see the hold and all store-rooms locked at the ap- 
pointed hour, and that no lights are left therein ; and, on returning 
the keys, to report the same to the Executive Officer. 

603 ..He is to see that all fires, and the officers' and ship's com- 
pany's lights are extinguished at the proper hour ; and that during 
the night no lights are permitted, except those authorized by the 
Commanding Officer. 

604 - . He, together with the Ship's Corporals, will be particularly 
vigilant in preventing the smuggling of liquor into the ship, and in 
examining boats or lighters to ascertain that no improper articles 
are either brought on board or carried away from the ship, and that 
none of the crew leave the vessel in them without due authority. 

605 ..When the magazine is about to be opened, he is to see that 
all required fires and lights are properly extinguished, and to report 
them so to the Officer of the Deck ; and, at the same time, he is to 
notify the Marine Officer in charge of the guard that the magazine 
is about to be opened, so that the necessary directions may be given 
to sentinels to prevent the use of improper fires or lights until it is 
closed. 

606. -He is, at all general musters of the crew, to account for ab- 
sentees, as their names are called. 

607. -Immediately upon the death, desertion, or capture of any 
of the crew, he will secure all their property, and, after the inven- 
tories are made out, deliver the same to the Paymaster ; and, should 
any of the crew absent themselves without leave, he will take charge 
of their effects, till otherwise ordered by superior authority. 

608 ..Ship's Corporals are to be subordinate to the Master-at- 
Arms, and assist him in the performance of his duties. In the ab- 
sence of the Master-at-Arms, the senior is to discharge his duties. 

Section 3.— Petty Officers Generally. 

609. -The Pvtty Officers are required to exhibit a good example 
of subordination, alacrity, and cleanliness, and to aid their superiors 
to the utmost of their ability in maintaining order and discipline. 

610. .They will be allowed such indulgence as the duties of the 



78 REGULATIONS FOR THE 



Persons Inferior in Bating to Petty Officers — The Commander. 

ship, and the nature of the service upon which she is engaged, in 
the judgment of the Commanding Officer, will permit. 



Section 4. — Persons Inferior in Rating to the Petty Officers. 

611. -AH other persons composing the crew are hereby enjoined 
to yield, on all occasions, a willing, cheerful, and prompt obedience 
to those placed over them ; to he especially attentive to their sta- 
tions and the instructions they may receive ; to avoid difficulties 
with each other, and departures from regulations ; to he always tidy 
about their persons and effects ; and, in a word, to contribute all in 
their power to promote order and harmony. 

ARTICLE V. 
Preservation and Safety of the Vessel. 

Section I.— The Commander. 

612 .-He shall not grant leave of absence to any officer, at any 
time, when the safety of the ship is concerned, or when it will in- 
terfere with exercise, or otherwise retard the public interests, or 
render it necessary to place the deck in charge of an officer inferior 
in rank to those designated for the purpose. Unless in case of abso- 
lute necessity, the charge of the deck is not to be intrusted to any 
other officer than one of those to whom it is regularly given. 

613. -On approaching land or anchorage of any kind, he will be 
careful to have the cables bent in due time. 

614. -When going into any port or harbor, or approaching shoals 
or rocks, whether with or without a pilot, he shall cause regular 
soundings to be taken ; aud he will have the leads frequently used 
whenever the vessel is on soundings. Upon all occasions of anchor- 
ing, he is, if possible, to select a safe berth, and have the depth of 
the water and the quality of the ground examined for at least three 
cables' length around his vessel, in places that are not known, or 
where he is a stranger, and have such bearings and angles noted in 
the log-book as will enable him to recover an anchor in case it should 
be necessary to slip a cable. 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 79 

The Commander, 

615 ..He will cause the chain cables to be carefully guarded 
against corrosion, and have them inspected once a quarter, and will 
cause the swivels, shackles, and bolts, to be coated with soft tallow, 
and the pins with white lead, or thick white paint. 

616. .He will cause the capstans to be turned round and properly 
oiled once a week, and will have the bars swiftered in when using 
them. 

617. -He will take care that the lightning conductors are kept at 
all times ready for service, and that the wire boarding-netting of his 
ship is always in the most serviceable condition. 

618. -He shall see that the meteorological observations are taken 
and recorded as per form in log-book ; and on indications of the 
approach of gales or hurricanes, he shall cause hourly, or more 
frequent, observations of the barometer and sympiesometer to be 
made, and every change in the force and direction of the wind re- 
corded. 

619. .He is to take every precaution against fire, and to establish 
general regulations for the duties to be performed by the officers and 
men, should one occur. He is not to allow lights to be used on the 
orlops, or in the holds or store-rooms, except in safe lanterns ; nor 
lights to be kept in officers' state-rooms, except the officer himself is 
present ; nor are friction matches, or any other substance or liquid, 
susceptible of easy or spontaneous ignition, to be on board in the 
private possession of any one. He is never, on any pretense, to allow 
any inflammable liquid to be drawn off from any package or cask 
anywhere but on the gun-deck, by daylight. 

620. -No explosive oils will be allowed on board vessels of the 
Navy, nor inflammable liquids, other than such as pertain to medical 
stores and turpentine ; the latter will be kept in sound, safe tanks, 
securely stowed in the most convenient place on the spar deck, and 
none of it ever taken below. 

621. .He will not permit smoking in the ward-room, steerages, 
cock-pit, or any part of the berth-deck ; but he will designate 
such places foi* smoking as will be best for the comfort of the 
officers and crew, having due regard to the safety of the vessel and 
her discipline. 

622 . . He will permit a lighted lantern to be hung up in a suitable 
place during meal hours, and after evening quarters until tattoo, or 



80 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

The Commander. 

the setting of the watch, from which pipes or cigars may be lighted. 
No pipes or cigars shall be lighted at the galley or on the berth- 
deck. 

623.. He will cause all lights and fires, other than the lights in 
light-rooms, to be extinguished whenever it is necessary to receive or 
discharge powder ; and all not absolutely necessary are to be ex- 
tinguished whenever the magazine is opened for any general pur- 
pose. On all occasions of handling or passing powder the utmost 
precautions are to be taken to guard against accidents. % 

624. .The magazine is never to be opened without the knowledge 
and consent of the Commanding Officer for the time being. 

625 . . He will be careful that the vessel is kept well caulked, par- 
ticularly about the bitts, water-ways, and other parts liable to be 
strained. He will cause this work to be done, as far as practicable, 
by the carpenters and caulkers of the vessel. 

626. .He will keep a night-order book, in which shall be entered 
all orders given to the Officer of the Deck, for his government during 
the night. 

62 7.. If, while sailing in squadron, he shall find that the course 
directed to be steered is leading the ship under his command or any 
other ship into danger, he will give notice to the Commander-in- 
Chief and to the ship endangered. 

628 . . When in command of an iron vessel, he will take every op- 
portunity of examining the bottom of such vessel, and be very 
careful that the plates are cleaned and coated with preserving com- 
position as often as may be necessary, or opportunity may offer for 
so doing ; and he is to see that no injury be done by corrosion to 
the rivets or other parts, and that no copper articles be allowed to 
rest on the bottom in contact with the iron. 

629.. He shall cause every "notice to mariners" that may appear 
during his cruise, and^that contains, from an authentic source, any 
information relating to his cruising ground, whether with regard to 
errors of charts, to the discovery of new dangers, or to the condi- 
tion or position of lights, buoys, or beacons, to be copied in a book 
kept for^that purpose, and to be embodied on the chart to which the 
information contained in such " notice' 7 relates. He shall also com- 
pare his list of charts with that of every other public vessel, more 
recently from the United States, with which he may meet, for the 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 81 

Rank and Command. 

purpose of procuring copies, tracings, or notes of any new charts or 
other hydrographical information that the latest publications may 
afford. At the end of the cruise such note-books, tracings, copies, 
and memoranda must be returned by him to the Bureau of Naviga- 
tion. 

ARTICLE VI. 
Section 1. — Bank and Command. 

630 . . The Line Officers of the Navy are classed by law as follows : 

Admiral. Lieutenant Commander. 

Vice-Admiral. Lieutenant. 

Rear- Admiral. Master. 

Commodore. Ensign. 

Captain. Midshipman. 
Commander. 

631 ..The usage of the naval service considers also that Mates, 
Boatswains, and Gunners are Officers of the Line. 

632.. Military command of, or in, vessels of war of the United 
States is exercised by the above-designated officers, in the order in 
which they are named. 

633. .Medical, Pay, Engineer Officers, and others not of the line, 
and not classed by law, are placed in the Annual Navy Register as 
follows : 

Surgeons. Second Assistant Engineers. 

Passed Assistant Surgeons. Chaplains. 

Assistant Surgeons. Professor of Mathematics. 

Paymasters. Carpenters. 

Passed Assistant Paymasters. Sailmakers. 

Assistant Paymasters. Secretaries. 

Chief Engineers. Clerks. 

First Assistant Engineers. 

634. -Military command of, or in, a vessel of war of the United 
States is not exercised by the above designated officers. 

635 ..The relative rank between certain grades of Line Officers 
and certain grades of Medical, Pay, Engineer, and Clerical officers 
is regulated by law, as follows : 
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82 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Rank and Command. 

1. Surgeons of the Fleet, Paymasters of the Fleet, and Fleet En- 

gineers, and Surgeons, Paymasters, and Chief Engineers 
of more than twelve years, rank with Commanders. 

2. Surgeons, Paymasters, and Chief Engineers of less than 

twelve years, and the Secretary of the Admiral and the 
Secretary of the Vice- Admiral, rank with Lieutenants. 

3. Passed Assistant Surgeons and First Assistant Engineers 

rank next after Lieutenants. 

4. Assistant Surgeons, Assistant Paymasters, and Second Assist- 

ant Engineers rank next after Masters. 

636. .Officers of the Marine Corps are placed by law, in relation 
to rank, on the same footing as officers of similar grades in the 
Army, and the relative rank between officers of the Army and Navy 
is fixed by law, as follows, lineal rank only to be considered : 

Commodores, with Brigadier Generals. 

Captains, with Colonels. 

Commanders, with Lieutenant Colonels. 

Lieutenant Commanders, with Majors. 

Lieutenants, with Captains. 

Masters, with First Lieutenants. * 

Ensigns, with Second Lieutenants. 

637. .The relative rank between officers of the Navy and officers 
of the Marine Corps follows accordingly. 

638.. Medical, Pay, Engineer, or other officers, not of the Line, 
are not to exercise authority, except in the corps or department to 
which they respectively belong. 

639.. When, from any circumstance whatever, the Commander- 
in-Chief of a fleet or squadron is rendered incapable of exercising 
command, the Line Officer of the fleet or squadron next in rank or 
seniority is to discharge his duties. 

640 . . If the Commander-in-Chief of a fleet or squadron be killed 
in battle, the Line Officer on duty on board the flag-ship highest in 
rank or seniority, whether detailed as Captain of the fleet, or as an 
aid of any kind to the Commander-in-Chief or otherwise, is to suc- 
ceed him provisionally, and until the officer of the fleet or squadron 
next in rank or seniority to the Commander-in-Chief announces 
that he has taken command. It shall be the duty of any officer thus 
succeeding the Commander-in-Chief provisionally, to inform the 



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Petty Officers. 

officer of the fleet or squadron next in seniority to the Commander- 
in-Chief, as soon as practicable, of the death of the latter. The flag 
of the deceased Commander-in-Chief is to be kept hoisted in its place 
until the battle be ended, or the enemy be out of sight or captured. 

641.. In case the Commander of a vessel should be rendered in- 
capable of exercising command, or should die, the Executive Officer 
is always to succeed him in command until further orders, even 
though there may be officers on board, as passengers, higher in rank 
or seniority than himself ; but in all cases where an Admiral, Vice- 
Admiral, Rear-Admiral, or a Commodore is embarked on board a 
vessel of the Navy, as a passenger, by due authority, her Com- 
mander, if of lower grade or junior in rank, is to be amenable to his 
orders, and such senior officer, when so embarked, will carry his flag. 

642 . . Officers, junior to the Commander, embarked as passengers 
on board a vessel of war, will not be assigned to duty on board that 
vessel unless the exigencies of the service shall make such assign- 
ment necessary, of which necessity the Commanding Officer shall be 
the judge. When passengers shall thus be assigned to duty, they 
shall have the same right to command and quarters as if originally 
ordered to that vessel. 

643. -No officer can x>ut himself on duty by virtue of his commis- 
sion or warrant alone. 

644 . . The officer in charge of the deck, for the time being, is the 
representative of the Commanding Officer, and his authority (sub- 
ject, however, to the orders of the Executive Officer) shall be 
recognized in all matters pertaining to the management and police 
of the vessel which come under his supervision. 

645 ..Officers of the Marine Corps are not to exercise command, 
either afloat or at a Naval Station, over others not of their own 
corps, unless specially authorized by the Commander of a vessel or sta- 
tion for a particular purpose, or when on guard, or in the performance 
of police duties. But when serving on shore with a mixed detach- 
ment, composed of sailors and marines, the Marine Officer will exer- 
cise command, according to his relative rank and date of commission. 

Section 2. — Petty Officers. 

646.. The Petty Officers of the Navy shall be divided into two 
classes — Petty Officers of the Line and Petty Officers. 



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Petty Officers. 



64 7 ..The class of Petty Officers of the Line, and the order of rank, 
and of succession to command, shall be as follows : 

1. Boatswain's Mates. 

2. Gunner's Mates. 

3. Signal Quartermaster. 

4. Cockswain to Commander-in-Chief. 

5. Captains of Forecastle. 

6. Quartermasters. 

7. Quarter Gunners. 

8. Cockswains. 

9. Captains of Main-top. 

10. Captains of Fore-top. 

11. Captains of Mizzen-top. 

12. Captains of Afterguard. 

13. Second Captains of Forecastle. 

14. Second Captains of Main-top, 

15. Second Captains of Fore-top. 

16. Second Captains of Mizzen-top. 

648.. All other Petty Officers, except the Master-at-Arms, shall 
be called Petty Officers, and shall take precedence and have assimi- 
lated rank as follows : 

1. Yeomen. 

2. Apothecaries. 

3. Paymaster's Yeomen. 

4. Masters of the Band. 

5. Schoolmasters. 

6. Ship's Writers. 

7. Carpenter's Mates. 

8. Armorers. 

9. Sailmaker's Mates. 

10. Painters. 

11. Coopers. 

12. Armorer's Mates. 

13. Ship's Corporals. 

14. Captains of Hold. 

15. Ship's Cooks. 

16. Bakers. 



To rank next 



after the 
Arms. 



Masters-at- 



j 

} To rank next after Gunner's Mates. 

j 



>To rank next after Captain of After- 
guard. 



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649 ..The Master-at-Arms will be the Chief Petty Officer of the 
ship in which he shall serve. All orders from him in regard to the 
police of the vessel, the preservation of order, and obedience to regu- 
lations mnst be obeyed by all Petty Officers and others of the crew. 
But he shall have no right to succession in command, and shall ex- 
ercise no authority in matters not specified above. 

650 . . Petty Officers are not to exercise authority except in the de- 
partment to which they belong, or over those placed immediately 
under their control. 

651 ..Precedence among Petty Officers of the same rate shall be 
established by the Commanding Officer of the vessel in which they 
shall serve. 

652 . . Orderly Sergeants of Guards of Marines, on board vessels of 
the Navy, shall rank next after Master-at-Arms ; all other Sergeants 
with Gunner's Mates ; and all Corporals with Captain of Afterguard. 

653 ..Non-commissioned Officers of Marines are not to exercise 
military authority or command over others not of the corps to 
which they belong, unless specially authorized by the Commander 
of the vessel or station for a particular purpose, or when on guard 
or police duties. 

654 ..When serving afloat, Petty Officers of the Navy shall take 
precedence of Non-commissioned Officers of Marines holding the 
same relative rank ; but when serving as troops on shore, the Non- 
commissioned Officers shall take precedence of Petty Officers of the 
same relative rank. 

ARTICLE VII. 
Section I. — Military Honors, Ceremonies, and Salutes. 

655 ..When the President of the United States shall visit a ves- 
sel of the Navy, he will be received as follows : the Boatswain shall 
attend with eight side-boys, and pipe the side ; the yards shall be 
manned at the moment when the bow oars of the boat in which he 
is embarked are tossed ; the men on the yards of the fore and main 
masts will face aft, and on those of the mizen-mast, forward ; all 
the officers of the vessel shall be arranged in line upon the quarter- 
deck, in lull uniform. The full marine guard shall be paraded. The 



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President shall be received at the gangway by the Admiral, Com- 
modore, or Commanding Officer, and such other officers as may be 
designated to assist in the reception. When the President reaches 
the deck, the National flag shall be displayed at the main, and kept 
there so long as he remains on board. All officers and men on deck, 
the guard excepted, shall uncover their heads, the guards shall pre- 
sent arms, the drums shall give four ruffles, the band shall play the 
national air, and a salute of twenty-one guns shall be fired ; the 
men on the yards shall lie in, and lie down at the firing of the'last 
gun. The same ceremonies shall be observed when the President 
leaves the vessel ; the yards shall be manned as he crosses the gang- 
way ; the salute shall be fired after the boat in which he is em- 
barked is clear of the side, and at the last gun the men on the yards 
shall lie in, and lie down, and the Flag shall be hauled down. 
If other vessels of the Navy be present, they shall man their yards 
at the moment the Flag is displayed at the masthead of the 
one visited, and will also fire a salute of twenty-one guns, unless 
otherwise directed by the senior officer present. On passing such 
vessels, their sentinels shall present arms, the drums shall beat 
four ruffles, and the band shall play the national air. 

656 ..The Vice-President of the United States, when visiting a 
vessel of the Navy, shall receive the same honors as have been pre- 
scribed for the President, except that the yards shall not be manned, 
and that there shall be but one salute of seventeen guns, which 
shall be fired on his leaving ; and that the National flag shall not 
be displayed, unless the reception takes place abroad, in which 
case it shall be hoisted at the fore. 

65 7.. An ex-President of the United States, when visiting a ves- 
sel of the Navy, shall receive the same honors as have been pre- 
scribed for the President, except the display of the National flag, 
and the manning of the yards. 

658.. Members of the Cabinet, Justices of the Supreme Court, or 
Governors of States, when visiting a vessel of the Navy, shall re- 
ceive the same honors as those prescribed for the Vice-President, 
except that the salute shall consist of fifteen guns, and shall be 
fired on leaving. A committee of Congress officially visiting a 
navy yard or station, will be saluted with fifteen guns on arriving 
or leaving. 



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659. .A foreign sovereign, or the chief magistrate of any foreign 
republic, when visiting a vessel of the Navy, shall he received with 
the same honors prescribed for the President, except that the flag 
of his own country shall be displayed at the main, and the band 
shall play his own national air. 

6 60.. Members of a royal family, when visiting a vessel of the 
Navy, shall receive the same honors as would be paid to their sover- 
eign, except that one salute only shall be fired on leaving. 

661 ..Whenever a minister appointed to represent the United 
States abroad, or a minister of a foreign country, shall visit a vessel 
of the Navy, he shall be received by the Admiral, Commodore, or 
Commanding Officer, and the marine guard shall be paraded. A 
salute of fifteen guns shall be fired on his leaving. 

662 ..A Charge d' Affaires, or Commissioner, shall be received in 
the same manner, but the salute shall be thirteen guns. 

663. .A Consul General shall be received by the Commanding 
Officer, and saluted with nine guns. 

664.. A Consul shall be received by the Commanding Officer, and 
saluted with seven guns. 

665 ..When an Admiral goes onboard his flag-ship to assume 
command, he shall be received by all the officers of the vessel in 
full uniform ; the crew in mustering clothes shall be arranged on 
the side opposite to that on which he enters ; the full marine guard 
shall be paraded. He is to be met at the gangway by the Command- 
ing Officer, and such other officers as he may select ,* the officers and 
men shall uncover their heads, the guard will present arms, the 
drums shall give four ruffles, and the band will play a march. 
When he orders his flag to be hoisted, a salute of seventeen guns 
will be fired. When he shall make a visit of inspection to any ves- 
sel of his fleet, the same ceremonies will be observed ; the salute 
will be fired immediately after he arrives on board. 

666. .When an Admiral relinquishes his command afloat, the cere- 
monies prescribed for his first reception shall take place at his 
departure. His flag will be hauled down at the last gun of the 
salute. 

667.. An Admiral leaving his flag-ship with the intention of soon 
returning on board, shall be entitled to an officer's guard, which is 
to present arms as he passes in front of it, and the drums to give 



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four ruffles; the Boatswain with eight side-boys will attend the 
side. He is to be accompanied to the gangway by the Line Officer 
next in rank to himself on board, and all the Line Officers of his 
Staff; the Officer of the Deck, and the Junior Officers of the Watch, 
will also be in attendance. The same ceremonies are to be observed 
on his returning on board. If absent at night with the intention of 
returning, four lights are to be displayed perpendicularly at the 
peak. 

668 . . In the case of a Vice-Adiniral, the same ceremonies will be 
observed as for an Admiral, with the exception that the drums shall 
give three ruffles, and that his salute shall be fifteen guns. 

669. . In the case of a Rear- Admiral the same ceremonies will be 
observed as for a Yice- Admiral, with the exception that the drums 
shall give two ruffles, that six side-boys shall attend the side, and 
that his salute shall be thirteen guns. If absent at night, with the 
intention of returning, three lights will be hoisted perpendicularly 
at the peak. 

670. .A Commodore on first going on board the vessel which is to 
carry his broad pennant, is to be received in the same manner as 
prescribed for a Rear- Admiral, except that his salute is to be eleven 
guns. Whenever he shall make a visit of inspection, the same cere- 
monies shall be observed ; the salute will be fired immediately after 
he arrives on board. 

671 ..The salutes as prescribed above for Flag Officers, on first 
taking command, are to be observed when not in the presence of 
another Flag Officer in command. If, on any such occasion, a Senior 
Flag Officer shall be present in command, the ship hoisting the flag 
of an Admiral or Commodore for the first time, shall salute such 
senior officer, who shall return the salute. If a Junior Flag Officer 
in command be present, he shall salute the flag of his senior when 
it is first hoisted, and such senior shall return the salute. No other 
salutes shall be fired on such occasion. 

672 ..When a Commodore relinquishes his command afloat, the 
ceremonies prescribed for his first reception are to take place at his 
departure. The broad pennant shall be hauled down at the last gun 
of the salute. 

673 ..A Commodore when leaving his ship with the intention of 
soon returning on board, shall be entitled to the same honors as 



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those prescribed for a Eear- Admiral, and the same are to be paid 
him on his return, If absent at night, with the intention of return- 
ing, two lights shall be displayed perpendicularly at the peak. 

6 74.. An Admiral's, Vice- Admiral's, or Rear- Admiral's flag, or a 
Commodore's broad pennant, shall not be hoisted on board any ship 
of his fleet or squadron, which he may visit for any purpose, with- 
out his special order. 

6 75 ..All Flag-ships will carry a toplight at night, while in port. 

676. .When the Commander-in-Chief of a fleet or squadron, 
whether an Admiral, Vice- Admiral, Eear- Admiral, or Commodore, 
shall first visit a shrp not belonging to his own fleet or squadron, 
he shall be received as if he were visiting a ship under his own 
command, but in no case shall a flag or broad pennant be hoisted. 

677 ..Whenever an Admiral, Vice-Admiral, Eear- Admiral, or 
Commodore, employed on shore, but not in command of a navy 
yard or station, shall visit a vessel of the Navy on duty, he shall be 
received by the senior Line Officer present and the officer of the 
deck. The marine guard shall be paraded, and on the occasion of 
his first visit a proper salute shall be fired. 

678. -When an officer is appointed to the command of a single 
vessel, he will, if she be at a navy yard and ready to be transferred 
to him, make, in company with the Commanding Officer of the 
yard, or some other proper officer or officers appointed by such 
Commanding Officer for the purpose, a thorough personal examina- 
tion of her, and inform himself as to all her arrangements and prepa- 
rations of equi})nient ; after which the transfer is to be formally 
made in the presence of as many of her officers and crew as can be 
assembled, before whom his appointment is to be read ; and then 
the vessel is to be placed in commission by hoisting her ensign and 
pennant. If the vessel is already in commission, he is, neverthe- 
less, to examine her and inform himself as stated above, and to read 
to her officers and crew his appointment. 

679 ..When the Commander of a vessel of war, below the rank 
of Commodore, shall leave such vessel, he shall be accompanied to 
the gangway by the Line Officer next in rank to himself, and by 
the officers of the watch. The Boatswain with four side-boys shall 
attend the side for Cairfcains and Commanders ; a Boatswain's Mate 
with two side-boys for Commanding officers of lower grades. The 



90 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

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same observances shall take place on the return of such Command- 
ing officers. If absent at night with the intention of returning, one 
light shall be hoisted at the peak. 

680 ... When an officer of the rank of Admiral, Vice-Admiral, Rear- 
Admiral, or Commodore, shall be ordered to command a navy yard 
or station, he is to be received at the gate, or landing, by the officer 
whom he is to relieve and the Line Officer next in rank, by all the 
officers of the station in uniform, by the marine guard with arms 
presented, and with proper salutes. On relinquishing his command, 
like ceremonies shall be observed, and his flag or broad pennant 
shall be hauled down at the last gun. 

681. -No officers of the Navy shall be saluted, other than Ad- 
mirals, Vice-Admirals, Rear-Admirals, and Commodores command- 
ing afloat; Admirals, Vice-Admirals, Rear- Admirals and Commo- 
dores on shore duty. When several officers entitled to be saluted 
may be assembled on board a ship, or at a navy yard or naval 
station, on the same duty, but one salute shall be fired, which shall 
consist of the number of guns to which the senior of such assem- 
blage may be entitled. Return salutes shall be as follows : Between 
officers of equal rank, gun for gun. To an inferior by a superior: 
if the inferior be a Commodore, the number of guns already speci- 
fied in preceding paragraphs. If a Captain, or officer of less rank, 
seven guns. 

682. .Whenever the President of the United States, the Vice- 
President, an ex-President, or any other personage for whose recep- 
tion afloat, ceremonies have been prescribed in the foregoing arti- 
cles, shall visit a navy yard or naval station, he shall be received 
with the same ceremonies, so far as may be practicable. 

683 . . Officers of the Army or Marine Corps, on visiting a vessel 
of the Navy, a navy yard or naval station, shall be received agree- 
ably to their relative rank with officers of the Navy. 

684 ..It will be the duty of every officer reporting to the Com- 
mander of a navy yard or station to pay him a visit of courtesy, 
independent of the visit he paid on reporting for duty. 

685 ..When commanding officers visit or depart from vessels of 
the Navy, Miey shall be received at the gangway on arriving, and 
accompanied there on leaving, by the commander of the vessel, if 
the visiting commander is of the same or of higher rank, otherwise 



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by the Executive Officer. The Boatswain with four side-boys shall 
attend the side for Captains and Commanders, a Boatswain's Mate 
with two side-boys, for Commanding Officers of lower grades. 

686 . . The Officer of the Deck will receive at the gangway on 
arrival, and attend there on the departure of all commissioned 
officers. Warrant Officers will receive and attend Warrant Officers. 
A Boatswain's Mate and two side-boys will attend the side for all 
commissioned officers other than Captains and Commanders. Two 
side-boys will attend the side for all Warrant Officers. 

687. .Forts, castles, or cities of the United States, are not to be 
saluted by any vessel of war of the United States. 

688 ..Vessels mounting less than ten guns shall not lire a salute 
that may require the re-loading of the guns, nnless it may be neces- 
sary to fire a return salute, in order to avoid giving offence to a 
foreign nation, or to foreign official personages. No surveying vessel, 
store-ship, or transport, is ever either to fire or return a salute. 

689.. A vessel mounting ten or more guns, ordered to join a fleet . 
'or squadron, is, on meeting the Commander-in-Chief, to salute his 
flag, and shall not again salute it while under his command, except 
he shall make a visit of inspection to such vessel. 

690 ..When fleets, squadrons, or divisions meet, none but the 
officers commanding them are to salute. 

691 ..No salute shall be fired in the presence of a senior without 
his permission, except it be one to snch senior. 

692 . . On the Fourth day of Jnly and the Twenty-second day of 
February, the National Flag shall be displayed at the peak and at 
each masthead, and the Union Flag hoisted forward over the bow- 
sprit cap from sunrise to sunset, on board of every vessel of the 
Navy in commission, not under way. At noon a salute of twenty- 
one guns shall be fired by all vessels able to salute, and such as are 
at sea, with the ensign flying at the peak at the time. Vessels 
should also dress ship on these days with signal and other flags, but 
foreign ensigns will not be used on such occasions. At navy yards 
and naval stations the ensign shall be displayed from sunrise to 
sunset, and a salute of twenty-one guns shall be fired at noon. 

693 ..When a national anniversary to be celebrated occurs on a 
Sunday, all the ceremonies are to be deferred until the following 
day ; and in no case should a salute be fired on Sunday, unless the 



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failure to do so would give offence to foreign authorities ; but 
salutes may be returned on that day. 

694. .If a vessel join a commanding officer who is entitled to a 
salute on Sunday, it is not to be fired until the following morning, 
immediately after hoisting the colors. 

695. -Commanding officers of vessels of the Navy, when in for- 
eign ports, are to give timely information to the public authorities 
of such ports, and to the Commanding Officers of foreign vessels of 
war present, of any anniversary or other event which it is intended 
to celebrate ; and should they fire salutes in honor of the occasion, 
the salutes are not to be returned unless the failure to do so would 
give offence, but a message of acknowledgment and thanks is to be 
promptly sent to them and to all others who may have publicly 
displayed any mark of honor or respect on the occasion. 

696 - . In saluting any personage, whether civil, naval, or military, 
the ensign of his nation is not to be exhibited, if its display will 
involve a return of the salute. Such salutes shall be regarded as 
personal, and their return shall not be expected. The same func- 
tionary shall not be saluted by the same vessel, at the same place, 
oftener than once in twelve months, except when it may be neces- 
sary in cases of foreign officials, or of naval or military officers who 
may have received advancement of rank. 

697. -When a foreign vessel of war, of a nation in amity Avith us, 
shall arrive at a port of the United States where one or more ves- 
sels of the Navy may be lying, the senior officer in command shall 
send a proper officer on board without delay, to make the usual 
offer of civilities and assistance. 

698 ..If the foreign vessel is a flag-ship, and if a flag-ship of the 
United States be present, the flag-officer of the United States, after 
having made the offer of civilities as above directed, shall await a 
visit from the foreign flag-officer, and shall promptly return it. If 
a flag-ship of the United States be not present, the senior officer in 
command shall visit the foreign flag-officer, after having made the 
offer of civiiities as above directed. 

699 ..If the foreign vessel is not a flag-ship, after the offer of 
civilities has been made as above directed, a visit from her Com- 
mander shall be awaited by the senior officer in command, and shall 
be promptly returned. 



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700 -. If any foreign vessel of war, arriving as above provided, 
shall salute the United States, the senior naval officer present shall 
retnrn such salute if there is no fort or battery on shore to an- 
swer it. 

701 ..Commandants of navy yards, and of naval stations, shall 
also on such occasions make promptly the offer of civilities and as- 
sistance, but will await the first visit from foreign officers of all 
ranks. 

702 ..Commandants of navy yards, or of a naval station, will 
return national salutes fired by foreign vessels of war, if there is 
neither ship nor fort to answer them. 

703 . . When naval, military, or civil officers of a foreign nation 
visit a vessel of the Navy, or a navy yard, or naval station, they 
shall be received with the salutes and honors herein provided for 
persons of similar rank in the service of the United States. 

704 . . On the arrival of a vessel of the United States in a foreign 
port, her Commander will inform himself as to the salutes and cere- 
monies usually observed between the authorities and ships of war, 
as provided for under head of Commanders-in-Chief, and will pro- 
ceed accordingly. 

705 . .Vessels of the Navy are not to salute any functionary of the 
United States, in a foreign port, until the proper honors have been 
paid to the flag of the nation to which the port belongs, unless such 
honors have been declined. The sails shall be furled when a place 
or port is saluted. 

706 ..The Commander of a fleet or squadron, on arriving at a 
foreign port, is to call in person and pay the first visit to the diplo- 
matic functionaries of the United States thereat, whose rank is of 
and above that of Charge' d' Affaires ; and the Commander of a ves- 
sel of the Navy, on so arriving, is to so call and first visit the function- 
aries of our government thereat, whose rank is of and above that 
of Consul General. The Commander of a fleet or squadron, on so 
arriving, is to send a suitable officer to visit the consular officer, 
and tender to him a passage to the flag-ship ; and the Commander 
of a vessel of the Navy, on so arriving, is to send an officer, who is 
to visit the consular officer, and if he be of the rank of Consul 
General, to inform him of the presence of the ship, and of the Com- 
mander's intention to visit him, unless the latter should find it con- 



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venient to make the visit at that time ; if of lower rank than 
Consul General, to offer him a passage to the ship. 

70 7.. Vessels of the Navy may participate in celebrating the na- 
tional festivals of a country, while lying in one of its ports, by 
hoisting the ensign of that country at either the fore or main, as 
circumstances may require, dressing ship and firing salutes ; and 
they may also participate in a similar way, while lying in a foreign 
port, in celebrating the national festivals of any other country in 
amity with the United States, besides the one to which the port be- 
longs, if in effect invited so to do. In such cases, the colors shall 
be hauled down with those of the foreign ships, or forts, whose na- 
tional festival is celebrated. And in case of foreign vessels of war. 
lying in our ports and celebrating their national festivals, the Com- 
mander of the station, or senior officer present, may participate in 
the celebration, as provided for when lying in a foreign port. 

708. .Whenever any vessel of the Navy may be lying in a foreign 
port, or may enter such port, and foreign vessels of war of nations 
in amity with the United States may be at anchor there, or may 
enter, it shall be the duty of the Commanding Officer to render 
to such vessels all such civilities as may be customary, and to re- 
ciprocate fully all such as may be extended to himself. 

709 . . Vessels of the United States shall salute flag-ships of other 
nations in amity with us, on meeting them at sea, or in foreign 
ports, when commanded by an officer superior in rank to the officer 
of the United States, on being assured of receiving gun for gun in 
return. 

7 10.. On entering a foreign port when the flag-ships of several 
nations are present, the following rule shall be observed: The first 
flag-ship to be saluted shall be the flag-ship of the nation to which 
the port belongs, if one be present ; and next the flag-ship of that for- 
eign flag-officer who has been longest in command on the station, and 
the rest in like order. The national flag of the vessel saluted shall 
be displayed at the fore, and the jib hoisted at the first gun, and 
hauled down at the last. 

711 ..All salutes from ships of war of other nations to those of 
the United States shall be returned gun for gun, and the jib shall 
be hoisted as above directed. 

712 . .No vessel of the Navy is to lower her sails or dip her colors 



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to another vessel of the Navy ; but should a foreign vessel or a 
merchant vessel of the United States dip her colors or lower her 
sails to auy vessel of the Navy, the compliment shall be instantly 
returned. 

713 ..Whenever any person for whom a salute has been provided 
in the preceding articles shall embark on board a vessel of the 
Navy for passage, he shall be entitled to the same salute as if he 
were visiting such vessel, and also to the same salute on disem- 
barking. 

714 ..Should it occur that any foreign official of high rank or 
distinction, whose reception has not been provided for in the fore- 
going paragraphs, should visit any vessel or naval station of the 
United States, he may be received with the salutes and honors 
assigned to him by his own country. 

715 ..No salute is ever to exceed twenty-one guns; all salutes 
must be fired between sunrise and sunset, and the national colors 
must always be displayed at the time. On the occasion of a visit 
by any person entitled to one salute, such salute shall be fired on his 
leaving a vessel, or on his arrival at a navy yard or station. 

716. .Cheers shall never be given as a compliment to any officer, 
or man, on joining a vessel of the Navy, or while attached to or 
being detached from her. 

717 ..Officers in boats not laden, nor engaged in towing, are, on 
meeting or passing other boats, to observe the following ceremo- 
nies, as marks of respect, according as they may be under oars or 
sail ; and the officers to whom the salutes are made are to be care- 
ful to acknowledge them promptly by raising their caps : To a boat 
with the flag of an Admiral, Vice-Admiral, or Rear- Admiral, or the 
broad pennant of a Commodore, boats with a narrow pennant are 
to lie on their oars, or let fly their sheets ; and boats without any 
pennants are to toss their oars, or lower their sails. In both cases, 
officers in them are to salute by raising their caps. In the case of 
two boats meeting or passing, each with the same insignia of a Com- 
manding Officer, the junior officer in rank or seniority is first to sa- 
lute the other by raising his cap. Officers in boats, meeting or pass- 
ing their own immediate Commander in a boat with his pennant 
flying, are to salute him by lying on their oars, or letting fly their 
sheets, and raising their caps ; and, in passing each other, the salute 



96 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Military Honors, Ceremonies, and Salutes. 

of raising the cap is always to be mutually niade, but first by the 
juuior in rank or seniority. All officers inferior in grade to the Com- 
manding Officer of another vessel than the one to which they be- 
long, are, on passing him in a boat with his pennant flying, to lie 
on their oars, or let fly their sheets, and raise their caps. Cocks- 
wains steering boats are, whenever Commissioned Officers are sa- 
luted, to stand up and raise their caps ; and whenever Warrant 
Officers are saluted, they are to raise their caps only. The officer 
and Cockswain of loaded boats, or of boats engaged in towing, shall 
salute a boat with the flag of an Admiral, Vice-Admiral, or Rear- 
Admiral, or the broad pennant of a Commodore, by standing and 
raising their caps. On passing boats with a narrow pennant, or 
with Commissioned Officers on board, the Cockswain shall stand, 
and both he and the officer shall raise their caps. Boats containing 
superiors of other grades shall be saluted as already provided for. 
When boats are rowing in the same direction, an inferior is not to 
j)ass his superior in grade, unless he be on urgent duty, or author- 
ized by the superior. When boats are pursuing opposite directions, 
the rule of the road, to prevent fouling, is that both should put 
their helms to port, circumstances permitting. When boats are 
approaching the same landing or vessel, an inferior is always to 
yield the way to a superior in grade. Boats about leaving the 
ship's side with inferiors are to give way in ample season to others 
approaching it with superiors. 

718. .A sentinel at a gangway is to present arms to all officers 
coming on board or leaving the vessel, of and above the rank of 
Lieutenant Commander, and to carry arms to all other Commis- 
sioned Officers ; but neither this ceremony, nor that of piping the 
side, is to take place except during the hours when the colors should 
be displayed. And, after tattoo, all side lights but one may be dis- 
pensed with, except in the case of a visit or departure of a foreign 
officer. The side will only be piped during meal hours, in case for- 
eign officers of rank visit the ship. 

719-.AU inferiors, in meeting, addressing, or passiug a superior, 
he being in uniform, either afloat or on shore, shall raise their caps ? 
and superiors are strictly enjoined to return such salutes in the same 
way. 

720 ..Every officer, or man, on reaching the quarter-deck, either 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 97 

Funeral Honors. 

from a boat, or below, or on leaving it to go over the side, is to sa- 
lute it by raising bis cap, and this is to be acknowledged in return, 
and in the same way, by all the officers of the watch at hand. 

721. .All officers, on going on shore or on returning on board, will 
report to the Officer of the Deck. 

722.. All persons having occasion to address the Executive Offi- 
cer, or the Officer of the Deck, on matters of duty, shall always 
salute by touching their caps. 

72 3 ..On board vessels having an accommodation ladder shipped 
at each gangway, the starboard gangway is to be reserved for the 
use of the Commissioned Officers and their visitors ; the port gang- 
way for all others. When one accommodation ladder only is ship- 
ped, it is to be used indiscriminately by all officers. 

724 . . Officers and men are not to omit, on any occasion, to extend 
to Officers of the Army of the United States, and to all foreign offi- 
cers, the courtesy and mark of respect due to their rank, when pass- 
ing them in boats or meeting on shore 

Section 2. — Funeral Honors. 

725 .. On the receipt of official intelligence of the death of the 
President of the United States, the senior officer present shall, on 
the following day, cause the ensign of each vessel under his au- 
thority to be hoisted at half-mast from sunrise to sunset, and a gun 
to be fired by his vessel every half hour, beginning at sunrise and 
ending at sunset. At Naval Stations the same ceremonies are to be 
observed. 

72 6 ..On the death of a Commander of a fleet, squadron, or divi- 
sion, at sea, the ensigns of all the vessels present, and the distinguish- 
ing flag of command which he wore, shall be hoisted half-mast dur- 
ing the performance of the funeral ceremony; and on committing 
the body to the deep, the flag-ship shall fire as many minute 
guns as he was entitled to receive for a salute when alive, 
and finally his flag shall be hauled down at the last one of these guns. 
If occurring in port, the ensigns and distinguishing flag mentioned 
shall be hoisted half-mast during each day from that of his decease un- 
til sunset of the one on which the funeral service is performed, and, 
on sending the body to the shore, the prescribed number of min- 
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REGULATIONS FOR THE 



Funeral Honors. 



ute guns is to be fired. The escort will fire three volleys of mus- 
ketry over the grave. 

72 7 ..On the death of an officer commanding a vessel, at sea, 
the ensigns of all the vessels present, and the pennant of the ves- 
sel he commanded, shall be hoisted half-mast during the perform- 
ance of the funeral ceremony ; and, on committing the body to the 
deep, the vessel he commanded shall fire as many minute guns as 
he was entitled to receive, either as his proper salute, or from his 
superior, as a return salute, when alive. If in port, the pennant 
of the vessel he commanded shall be hoisted half-mast during each 
day from that of his decease until sunset of the one on which the 
funeral service is performed ; and, on sending the body to the 
shore, all the vessels present are to half-mast their ensigns until 
sunset, and the number of minute guns indicated is to be fired. 
The escort will fire three volleys of musketry over the grave. 

728.. On the death of a Commissioned Officer, other than those 
already mentioned, at sea, the ensigns of all the vessels present 
shall be hoisted half-mast during the performance of the funeral 
service ; and if in port, the ensigns are to be so hoisted during 
the time that the body is being conveyed to the shore, and until 
the return of the funeral escort to the ship. In either case, after 
the funeral services, three volleys of musketry are to be fired by the 
full marine guard. 

72 9.. On the death of a Warrant -Officer, the ensigns of all the 
vessels present shall be hoisted half-mast during the performance 
of the funeral service when at sea; and when in port, during the 
time that the body is being conveyed to the shore, and for one 
hour afterward. In either case, three volleys of musketry are to 
be fired by a sergeant's guard of fourteen men. 

730 . . On the death of a Medical, Pay, Engineer, or other officer 
not of the Line, the same funeral honors are to be observed as those 
prescribed for a Line Officer of the same relative rank, except that 
the distinctive flag or pennant of the vessel is not to be hoisted 
at half-mast, and that no minute guns are to be fired. If a Com- 
missioned Officer, three volleys of musketry are to be fired by the 
full marine guard. 

73 1 . . On the death of a Petty Officer, or other person of inferior 
rating, the ensigns of all vessels present shall be hoisted half-mast 



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during the performance of the funeral service when at sea; and 
when in port, during the time that the body is being conveyed to 
the shore. 

732.. On the death of an officer, non-commissioned officer, or 
private, of the Marine Corps, the funeral honors are to be regu- 
lated by his relative rank. In no such case are ships to half- 
mast their distinguishing flags, or pennants, or to fire minute guns. 

733.. If it should not be practicable to fire with musketry, at the 
grave of any officer, in a foreign country, the volleys may be fired 
over the body after it is lowered into the boat alongside the ship. 

734 . . On the death of an officer, or other person belonging to the 
Navy, on shore, he will be entitled to the same funeral honors, so 
far as circumstances will admit, as though he had died on duty at 
sea. As a recognition of distinguished services, the Secretary of the 
Navy may order such additional honors as in his judgment may 
seem appro}3riate. 

735.. No vessel of a fleet or squadron, other than that of the 
Senior Officer present, is ever to half-mast her colors until permission 
to do so has been obtained ; but whenever the vessel of the Senior 
Officer present has her colors at half-mast, all the other vessels in 
sight are to follow motions. 

736 . .Funeral honors are not to be paid before the rising nor after 
the setting of the sun. 

737. .When a death occurs on board a vessel of the United States, 
in a foreign port, the Senior Officer present will make the arrange- 
ments for the funeral with the local authorities through the United 
States consul, and will request permission for the escort to carry the 
necessary arms. 

738.. On the death of a commissioned officer occurring in a 
foreign port, the Senior Officer present will, when circumstances 
permit, notify the senior foreign naval officer of each nation having 
vessels in port of the time and place of the funeral, and will, through 
the consul, obtain permission from the local authorities to land an 
armed escort, if one is necessary. 

739.. Whenever notice is given to the Commander of a vessel of 
the navy that the funeral of a foreign officer is to take place, he will? 
if practicable, detail two or more officers of the rank of the deceased 
to attend. 



100 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Funeral Honors. 

740 . . At all funerals, the attendance of officers and men shall be 
as large as may be practicable under existing circumstances, and in 
proportion to the rank of the deceased. 

741.. Funeral processions will shove off in the following order: 
1st, Music and firing party; 2d, boat with chaplain and surgeon; 
3d, boat carrying the corpse, with body bearers; 4th, boats with 
pall-bearers ; 5th, boats with officers of the ship to which the deceased 
was attached; 6th, boats from other vessels of the United States, in 
the inverse order of the rank of Commanding Officers ; 7th, boats from 
foreign ships, arranged from van. to rear in the inverse order of the 
rank of their several senior officers, and when such seniors are of the 
same grade, then length of service on the station will decide relative 
positions. If the deceased be a Commander of a squadron or of a 
single vessel, his flag or pennant will be carried at half-mast in the 
bow of the boat containing the coffin. 

742.. The firing party should be composed of marines, and the 
seamen landed should not be armed. The colors, draped, should be 
carried in the procession, and in case it be the funeral of an officer 
commanding a squadron or vessel, his flag or pennant should be 
similarly dressed and carried, All drums should be covered with 
black crape or serge, and muffled. 

743- . On reaching the shore, the procession should be formed 
under the command of an officer, senior to the officers commanding 
the firing party and the details of men from different vessels who are 
to form a part of the procession. The order of formation will be as 
follows : see plan. 

Music. 

Firing party. 

Chaplain and surgeon. 

Pall or hearse. 

Men from different vessels, in squads, commanded by their own 
officers. 

Officers of the vessel to which the deceased was attached, juniors 
leading. 

Officers from the fleet or squadron, juniors leading. 

Foreign officers, arranged as directed for procession in boats. 

744 . . Eight men should be selected to act as body-bearers, and if 
a hearse be used they will march immediately behind it. 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 101 

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74 5 ..The pall-bearers should be six in number and of the same 
grade as the deceased, when practicable. They will march on either 
side of the hearse or pall, the junior to the left and front, the next 
junior to the right and front, &c. They will wear crape on the left 
arm and on the sword hilt. 

746.. The officer in charge of the procession will, through the 
officer detailed to reeeive foreign officers, invite the senior of each of 
these delegations to designate one of his party to act as pall-bearer, 
and those thus selected will march, one with each of the pall-bearers* 

747 . . The procession will march to the grave in common time, and 
the escort will return in quick time. 

748.. The nag and pennant should be carried in the center of the 
line composed of the firing party and the battalion of seamen. Be- 
fore leaving the grave the drapery should be removed from the flag 
and drums, and on the return the pennant should not be displayed. 

749 . . The colors will never be hauled down from half-mast at sun- 
set, but will be run up when- the call is beaten. 



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750 ..In processions, the line will be formed with the Line Offi- 
cers, in the order of their rank, on the right, and all other officers, in 
the order of their rank, on the left. Then, moving by the right, the 
Line Officers will be ahead, and, by reversing at funerals and moving 
by the left, (as is customary,) the Line Officers will again be in their 
proper place, that is, the rear. 

751 ..In receiving distinguished persons on board ship, the Offi- 
cers will be assembled on the starboard side of the Quarter-deck ; 
those of the Line, on the right, those not of the Line, opposite. The 
Marine guard being drawn up on the port side, as usual. 




(2) Ex-Officer. 
(1) Captain. 



104 REGULATIONS FOR THE 



Distinguishing Flags of Officers. 



Section 3. — Distinguishing Flags of Officers. 

(See signal book for a description of distinguishing flags.) 

752.. When the Secretary of the Navy shall visit a vessel of war 
of the United States, the jack shall be hoisted at the main, on his 
coming on board, and carried there until his departure. 

753 . .The flag of the Admiral is to be carried at the main ; of the 
Yice-Admiral, at the fore ; of a Rear- Admiral, at the mizzen. ' A 
Commodore's broad pennant is to be carried at the main. If more 
than one Rear-Admiral is present, the juniors will carry their flags, 
with stars, as in their boat flags, at the mizzen. If more than one 
Commodore is present, the juniors will carry their broad pennants 
at the fore. 

754 . . Divisional Commanders are not to wear their distinguishing 
marks, when separated singly from the squadron and station to 
which they belong. 

755 . . Any officer commanding a vessel of the Navy, except one on 
board which a flag, broad pennant, divisional, or senior officer's mark 
may be worn, shall wear a narrow pennant at the main. This pen- 
nant is to be regarded not as an emblem of rank, but rather as sig- 
nificant of command, and that the vessel is of a public character. 

756.. All commanding officers of and above the grade of Lieutenant 
Commander may wear on a staff at the bow of the boat in which 
they may be embarked a flag or pennant of the same character which 
they are entitled to wear at the mast-head of their respective ves- 
sels ; but no divisional flag shall be worn in the bow of boats. 

757. .The flag or broad pennant of a Commander-in-Chief, or fleet 
or squadron, shall be worn only when he is actually in command of 
such fleet or squadron, but it shall not be worn by any vessel in a 
port of the United States during his absence from that port for a 
longer period than twenty-four hours. The senior officer present in 
such cases is, for the time being, to wear his distinguishing mark, to 
issue all necessary orders, and to obey any directions that may have 
been, or may be, given to him by said Commander. 

758. -An Admiral, Vice-Admiral, or Rear- Admiral in command of 
a shore station, is to wear his flag, and to hoisfc it on board the re- 
ceiving vessel; or, if there be no such vessel thereat, at any suitable 



NAYY OF THE UNITED STATES. 105 

General Instructions. 

place within his limits. A Commodore in snch command is to wear 
his broad pennant, and to so hoist it. 

759. -To distinguish officers in boats, Captains shall wear a gilt 
ball on the end of their boat staffs, and Commanders a gilt star. 

760.. Commanding Officers of fleets, squadrons or divisions, will 
carry the distinguishing marks of their rank on the bow of their 
barges. 

761.. These distinguishing marks will be allowed to no other 
grades. 

762 . . In foreign countries all boats should carry the national flag 
unless specially ordered to do otherwise. 

AETICLE VIII. 
General Instructions. 

763.. The attention of all persons belonging to the Navy is par- 
ticularly called to the laws for the government of the Navy, and to 
all general orders and regulations of the Navy Department which 
now exist or may be issued hereafter. 

764.. Every general order issued by this Department, or irub- 
lished by authority, will be read to the officers and crew by the 
Executive Officer on board of every naval vessel, at the first general 
muster subsequent to its receipt, and the fact entered upon the 
ship's log. All officers are directed to preserve a copy of each Gen- 
eral Order and Circular. 

765 . .A supply of all General Orders and Circulars of the Depart- 
ment will be forwarded to the Commandants of navy yards and 
stations, and Commanders of fleets or squadrons, who are required 
fco distribute them to each and every officer under their respective 
commands. 

766 ..Commandants of navy yards and stations will post, for at 
least three months after their date, in the most conspicuous jdace 
within the limits of their command, a copy of each of the General 
Orders and Circulars received by them. 

76 7 ..All officers on duty are required xo apply, in writing, 
monthly, to the Commandant of the navy yard or station, or of the 
fleet or the squadron under whose command they are serving, for such 



106 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

General Instructions. 

General Orders and Circulars as they have not received ; and all 
officers not on duty will make similar application to the Navy De- 
partment, such application to specify the number or dates of the 
General Orders or Circulars they have not received, or the number 
and date of the last one received by them. 

768 .. Although particular duties are prescribed for officers and 
others in these regulations, it is not intended to confine or limit 
them to those specified, but every person is enjoined to promote, by 
zeal and energy, the efficiency of the service. 

769 . . Authority is to be exercised with firmness, but with kind- 
ness and justice to inferiors, and officers will bear in mind that the 
authority to punish offenses is strictly defined by law ; no deviation 
therefrom will be tolerated. 

770. -All persons in the Navy are to be constant in attention to 
their duties, and shall not absent themselves therefrom without the 
consent of their immediate Commanding Officer. 

771.. Every officer or other person of the Navy shall treat with 
respect his superior, or any one having authority over him, and is 
required to set an example of morality, subordination, and devo- 
tion to duty. 

772 . .If any person in the Navy shall consider himself oppressed 
by his superior, or shall observe in him any misconduct, he is not 
on that account to fail in his respect to him, but he is to represent, 
through the proper channel, such oppression or misconduct to the 
proper authority. But in all cases such person will be held account- 
able if his representations should be found vexatious, frivolous, or 
false. 

773.. If any person belonging to the Navy shall know of any 
fraud, collusion, or improper conduct on the part of any agent, con- 
tractor, or other person employed in matters connected with the 
naval service, he shall report the same, in writing, through the 
proper channel, to the proper authority ; but he must, in all cases, 
specify the particular acts of misconduct, and the means of proving 
the same, for he will be held strictly accountable for any frivolous 
or vexatious charges he may present. No anonymous correspond- 
ence will be noticed. 

774. -If an officer receive an order from a superior contrary to 
any particular order of any other superior, or to instructions, or 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 107 

General Instructions. 

general orders from the Department, he will respectfully represent 
the facts in writing to such superior, and if, after such representa- 
tion, the superior shall still insist upon the execution of his order, it is 
to he obeyed, and the officer receiving and executing it is to report 
the circumstances to the one from whom he received the original 
order. 

7 75. .Every officer who shall divert another from any service 
upon which he shall have been ordered by a common superior, or 
require him to act contrary to the orders of such superior, or inter- 
fere with those under his command, must show to the Der>artment, 
or to the officer under whose command he may be acting, that the 
public interest required the procedure. 

7 76.. All orders countermanding a written order from a common 
superior shall be given in writing. 

777.. No person in the Navy shall, without the authority of his 
superior or Commanding Officer, exchange with another for the per- 
formance of any duty with which he may be charged. 

778. .When any officer, whether in command of a fleet, squadron? 
division, or single vessel, shall meet with his superior or senior 
officer, also in command, he will visit him in persou, show him his 
orders or instructions, and consider himself under his command for 
the time being. If he shall have received confidential orders, he is 
at once to inform his superior of that fact, and he must not be de- 
layed in the execution of such orders by his superior without an 
overruling necessity therefor, of which the Department must be in- 
formed in detail, at the earliest possible moment; in all cases of 
such interference, the original instructions must be carried out as 
soon thereafter as practicable, and a full report upon the subject 
forwarded to the authority which issued such confidential orders. 

779.. Any officer who may be sent on detached duty, and who 
may arrive within the limits of a port or station commanded by an 
officer belonging to the same fleet, squadron, or division, shall al- 
ways communicate with such Commanding Officer, either iu person 
or by letter, according as he may be junior or senior to such officer, 
before proceeding to execute any part of the duty with which he 
may be charged within such limits, unless otherwise directed by 
their common superior, or the position of such Commanding Officer, 
or other imperative circumstances that would cause a delay preju- 



108 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

General Instructions. 

dicial to the service. Such officer will always communicate with 
the Commanding Officer of the port or station before leaving it, in 
order that an opportunity may be afforded to send reports or dis- 
patches in case there should be no regular means of communica- 
tion between him and the Commander-in-Chief or Navy Depart- 
ment. 

780 . . Boats shall not be regarded as being on detached duty while 
engaged in the ordinary service of the ship to which they belong. 
Unless specially fitted for an expedition for which a regular detail 
of officers and men is made, or unless separated from the ship by 
unavoidable or unforeseen circumstances, they will be regarded as 
attached to her, and no officer in such cases shall assume authority 
on the ground that he is engaged on detached duty. 

781. .When two or more vessels are in company, the senior officer 
present will regulate the motions of all. 

782. .No deviation shall be made from the directions of the Navy 
Department in relation to the construction, repair, arrangement, 
armament, or equipment of vessels without its previous sanction, or 
in cases of absolute necessity occurring abroad, of the" Commander- 
in-Chief, or of the senior officer present, and then the nature of the 
alteration, effects produced, and costs, are to be reported to the 
Department at the earliest moment practicable. Nor shall any 
change be made in the fixtures or furniture of officers' apartments 
without such sanction, and, if made for private convenience, no ar- 
ticle substituted for that allowed shall be removed, even though it 
may have been purchased by the officer desiring the change. 

783 .- Every officer is strictly enjoined to avoid all unnecessary 
expenditures of public money or stores, and as far as may be in his 
power, to prevent the same in others, and to encourage the strictest 
economy consistent with the interests of the service. All persons 
in the Navy are hereby held answerable for any was teful or im- 
proper expense they may direct, authorize, or knowingly permit. 

784 ..In case of robbery, or on the discovery of the loss of money 
or other public property, the person responsible for the safe custody 
of the same will immediately report the occurrence to the senior 
officer present, who will thereupon order a board of three suitable 
officers to investigate the alleged robbery or loss, and to report 
fully and impartially all the circumstances connected therewith, so 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 109 

General Instructions. 

far as they can ascertain, which report will be forwarded to the 
Secretary of the Navy. 

785.. No article of public stores is ever to be appropriated to the 
private use of any person not in distress, without the consent of the 
Navy Department, or the order of the senior officer present in 
command, who shall give to the Department early information of 
every case that may occur, together with the attending circum- 
stances, and he shall, in every instance, be careful to take the best 
security for future indemnity to the government that the nature of 
it will admit. 

786 . . Merchant vessels in distress for the want of stores or provis- 
ions, at sea or elsewhere remote from supplies, may be furnished with 
such as can be spared, but proper receipts in triplicate are to be 
taken for all articles so supplied, the original of which shall be re- 
tained by the officer from whose department the stores or provisions 
have been furnished, and the duplicate and triplicate shall be for- 
warded by different opportunities to the Secretary of the Navy 
Cash payments may be received if practicable ; if otherwise, a bill 
of exchange shall be obtained to be drawn by the Master on the 
owners, payable to the order of the Secretary of the Navy, and its 
first and second forwarded by different opportunities. The address 
of the owners to be stated and the value of the provisions and 
stores is to be calculated at their invoice prices. In cases of 
extreme distress gratuitous assistance is to be offered to the fullest 
extent practicable. 

787 . . Supplies shall be furnished to foreign ships of war, when 
requested, so far as the articles needed can be spared. Proper 
receipts shall be taken from the Commander of the foreign ship of 
war, and forwarded as above directed. In any case of thus furnish- 
ing stores or provisions, Commanding Officers will give written 
orders to the officers from whose departments they are to be issued, 
to so issue them. 

788 -. Mechanics on board vessels on foreign stations may be 
allowed to repair vessels of the merchant service of the United 
States in cases where a refusal to do so would of necessity impose 
injurious delays or greatly increase expenses. For their services 
they may receive such compensation as may be properly offered 
and their Commanding Officer may regard as fair and equitable. 



110 REGULATIONS FOE, THE 

General Instructions. 

No officer in the Navy, however, is ever to claim or receive any 
compensation whatever for such services. Assistance may likewise 
be rendered to foreign vessels on similar terms, when not attainable 
otherwise, by permission of the senior officer. 

789 ..All persons employed in the Navy, or for naval purposes, 
are strictly prohibited from having any interest whatever in pur- 
chases or contracts for supplies of any kind for the Navy, or in any 
works pertaining to it, nor shall they receive, directly or indirectly? 
any emolument or gratuity of any kind from any contractor or other 
person furnishing supplies, nor act as agent or attorney for any such 
contractor or other person. 

790 ..When the sun sets at or after six o'clock, tattoo shall be 
beat at nine o'clock in the evening, and the colors be hoisted at 
eight o'clock in the morning ; and when it sets before six o'clock^ 
the tattoo shall be beat at eight o'clock in the evening, and the 
colors be hoisted at nine o'clock in the morning. The colors shall 
be kept flying until sunset if the weather will permit, or the Senior 
Officer see no objection thereto. Whenever a vessel of the Navy 
shall get under weigh, or come to anchor, the colors shall be hoisted, 
though earlier or later, if there be light enough for them to be seen ; 
also in passing, meeting, joining, or parting from any other of the 
vessels of the Navy ; and unless there should be sufficient reason to 
the contrary, on falling in with any other vessel at sea, and in pass- 
ing or approaching forts, castles, batteries, light-houses, or towns. 

791 ..All lights and fires, except those necessary for the service 
of the vessel, or specially allowed by the Commanding Officer, or 
the lights used in the wardroom, steerages, and warrant officers' 
apartment, shall be extinguished at tattoo. The wardroom lights 
shall be extinguished at ten p. in., and all others at nine p. m v un- 
less otherwise allowed in special cases by the Commanding Officer. 
The greatest caution is to be observed with regard to lights in any 
part of a vessel. No light shall be left unattended in any apart- 
ment, unless it be in a lantern properly secured. No uncovered 
light shall be used in any store-room or in the hold, nor shall spirit- 
lamps, explosive oils, or friction matches be allowed on board any 
vessel of the Navy. 

792 . .When any commissioned or warrant officer, seaman, marine, 
or other person belonging to the Navy, shall be accused of a capital 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. Ill 

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crime, or of having used violence, or committed any offense against 
the person or property of any citizen of the United States, snch as 
is punishable by the known laws of the land., the Commanding 
Officer and officers of every vessel, naval station, or command to 
which the person or persons so accused shall belong, are hereby re- 
quired, upon applications duly made by or in behalf of the party or 
parties injured, to use their utmost endeavors to deliver over such 
accused person or persons to the civil magistrate, and likewise to 
be aiding and assisting to the officers of justice in apprehending and 
securing the person or persons so accused, in order to bring him or 
them to trial. 

793 ..Should fugitives from justice, or persons accused of crime, 
escape to vessels of the Navy in a foreign port, they are not to be 
harbored, but shall be delivered up, on application to the proper 
authorities. 

794 . . Gambling is strictly prohibited on board vessels of the Navy 
and in navy yards, and at all places and stations belonging to, or 
under the control of, the Navy Department. 

795 ..Officers are prohibited from borrowing money, accepting 
deposits from, or having any pecuniary transaction with, enlisted 
men or appointed Petty Officers in the naval service. The Pay Offi- 
cer of the vessel is the proper person to receive deposits. Such de- 
posits are at the risk of the depositors in all cases, and it must be 
so stated in the memorandum of deposit which the Paymaster is 
authorized to give ; but the Paymaster is to take every precaution 
for its safe-keeping. 

796. -Should any Officer of the Navy so far forget what is due to 
his own honor, and to that of the service of which he is a member, 
as to incur debts, especially upon a foreign station, without a rea- 
sonable expectation of discharging them, or should any officer leave 
any foreign port without paying, or providing for the payment of 
every debt he may have incurred, his conduct, when brought to the 
knowledge of his Commanding Officer, shall be reported by him to 
the Commander of the fleet or squadron, or the Secretary of the 
Navy, in order that such course may be pursued as the circumstances 
of the case may require. 

797 .-Officers of the Navy not on duty are to keep the Depart- 
ment at all times advised of their address. 



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798 . . Officers, on being detached from duty, will immediately in- 
form the Department of their intended place of residence, and notice 
must be given of any contemplated change before it shall have been 
made. 

799.. Officers will promptly acknowledge the receipt of orders, 
and also inform the Department immediately on their having re- 
ported in obedience to them. 

800.. A written order from the Department to an officer to leave 
his domicile for duty, fixing no date and not expressing haste, will 
be obeyed by leaving within four days after receipt ; if the order 
reads " without delay/ 7 he will leave within forty-eight hours; if 
"immediately/ 7 then within twelve hours; and all officers are 
required to indorse on their orders from the Department the date 
and hour of receipt. 

801 . . All persons belonging to the Navy will conform strictly 
to such regulations for uniform as may be published from time to 
time. 

802.. Officers serving afloat, or traveling in foreign countries, 
shall communicate to the Commauder-in-Chief of the squadron, or 
to the Secretary of the Navy, any information they may acquire that 
will be useful to the government of the United States. 

803 . . Officers of the Navy, and all others in the employment of 
the Navy, are forbidden to give publicity to any hydrographical 
knowledge obtained, or discoveries or improvements in ordnance 
made during their service afloat, and officers in command of stations 
are not to communicate information to foreign officers without 
authority from the Department. 

804 . . The residence of an officer is within the State or Territory 
which he habitually makes his home when off duty, and the appro- 
priate column in the Navy Register will designate whatever State or 
Territory officers may select as their residence. No officer making 
such selection will afterwards change it, or his residence, without 
informing the Secretary of the Navy. 

805.. No officer under arrest or suspension, or on furlough, will 
leave the State or Territory of which he is a resident, or visit the 
Navy Department, without the authority of the Secretary of the 
Navy. 

806 . . All orders to the Officer of the Deck, to be carried out during 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 113 

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the night, whether given by the Commanding or Executive Officer, 
must be in writing. 

807 ..No person in the Navy will upbraid another person in the 
Navy for refusing a challenge to fight a duel. Every person is en- 
joined to assist in the honorable adjustment of any differences that 
may occur. No disgrace can attach to any one for refusing a chal- 
lenge, as such a course would be in obedience to law. 

808 . . No person in the Navy shall use any language that may tend 
to render officers or others dissatisfied with any service in which they 
may be engaged, or upon which they may be ordered, or to diminish 
their confidence in, or respect for their superiors in command, or 
which may in any "manner tend to weaken that subordination which 
is essential to the security and usefulness of the Navy ; and it shall 
be the duty of every officer who may hear any such language to sup- 
press it, and report it immediately to the proper officer. 

809.. Combinations on the part of officers, or others, for the pur- 
pose of remonstrating against a superior, or his orders, or complain- 
ing of details of duty, or of service, are strictly forbidden. If an 
individual believes that he has cause to remonstrate or complain, he 
is at liberty to do so either in writing or personally; but to combine 
with any other person to prefer or set forth a complaint against a 
superior, is to be regarded as insubordinate and factious, and may 
be punished by a court-martial. No person is to delay obedience to 
an order for the purpose of remonstrating or complaining. 

810 .. Presents of swords, plate or other things of value, from in- 
ferior officers, or from crews, to their superior or commanding officer, 
in the way of compliment, and all votes, resolutions or testimonials, 
whether of praise or censure, from inferiors to superiors, are injurious 
to discipline, and are, therefore, strictly forbidden. 

811.. Written testimonials of the general or particular conduct of 
officers and others are only to be given by their Commanding Offi- 
cer, and in case of Commanding Officers themselves, by the Com- 
mander of the squadron. All such are to be addressed officially to 
the Secretary of the Navy, and forwarded to the Department for 
record and use. In case of officers who are required to furnish 
testimonials on presenting themselves for examination, such testi- 
monials may be written by those whose province it is to do so ; 
but they shall be directed to and sent to the Navy Department, and 

8nr 



114 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

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certified copies of them given to the individuals to whom the testi- 
monials are due. 

812.. No person belonging to, or in the employ of the Navy, shall 
accept any gift or testimonial of any kind from the workmen, or any 
other person or persons employed in any navy yard, or other place 
under the control of the Navy Department. 

813 . . Intelligence respecting any contemplated naval or military 
operations, descriptions of naval vessels or armaments, their desti- 
nation, or the names of such as are under repair, or fitting for sea, 
or any other information whatsoever that can be used to the injury 
of the government, are prohibited from being given by any person 
in the naval service. 

814.. Discussions of military or naval movements by officers in 
the presence of their attendants, or any of the crew, are prohibited. 

815.. All publications, or communications in private letters, rela- 
tive to military or naval operations, the movements of ships or of 
distinguished officers, or containing information of any kind or de- 
scription that can be used by the public enemy, are strictly forbidden. 

816.. Publications relating to private transactions, or having in 
view the praise or censure of any person in the naval service, are 
prohibited. 

817 ..In all matters liable to undergo investigation by court- 
martial, or otherwise, officers and others will be careful not to pre- 
judge the case, or commit themselves by giving an oral or written 
opinion, until required to do so by the Department, or Commander- 
in-Chief of the squadron. 

8 18.. Commanding Officers of fleets and squadrons are directed 
to investigate immediately, by a Court of Inquiry, or if the matter 
is of less importance, and a court impracticable, then by a board of 
three officers, all accidents, occurrences and transactions, which it is 
necessary the Department should have full information upon, and 
forward the same to the Secretary of the Navy, in such a complete 
and concise form that action maybe taken thereon without referring 
the case back again. Commanding Officers of vessels, acting singly, 
will order boards of not more than three officers, in all such cases. 

819 - .No officer will interfere personally in the arrest and manage- 
ment of intoxicated men more than may be absolutely necessary. 
The arrest should always be made by persons not above the grade of 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 115 

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Petty Officers, and no more violence should be used than that re- 
quired to restrain or confine them. 

820. .The use of sheath knives on board ship is strictly forbidden. 
Jack-knives shall be worn with lanyards and in fobs. 

821.. When a vessel is to be laid up, or put out of commission, the 
orders detaching the officers, for leaves of absence or waiting orders, 
will not be delivered by the Commandant of the navy yard or station 
until the stores of the vessel shall have been landed, her crew trans- 
ferred or paid off, and the vessel ready to be turned over to the yard 
or station, and all regulations relative to a vessel arriving from sea 
fully complied with. 

822 . . All officers of the Navy, not on duty, whose names are borne 
on the books of a navy yard or station for pay, will, on the receipt 
of orders for duty, enclose a copy of the same to the Commandant of 
the yard or station. 

82 3.. All officers returning from sea, under orders or permission 
from their Commanding Officer, will, immediately on their arrival 
in the United States, report in writing to the Department, enclosing 
a copy of the order or permission under which they return. 

824.. An order or permission given by a Commanding Officer on 
a foreign station to an officer to return to the United States and re- 
port to the Secretary of the Navy, requires no more than that he 
should report, in writing, from the place of his arrival. No allow- 
ance for travel to the seat of government will be allowed, unless 
specially authorized by the Department. 

825 . . Duty on board a sea-going vessel of the Navy in commiss ion, 
on board a practice ship at sea, or on board a coast survey vessel 
actually employed at sea, will be regarded by the Department as 
sea service. 

82 6.. Officers of the Navy while attached to vessels of the coast 
survey on sea service, will be entitled to sea pay. 

827 . . Commanding Officers may order medical officers of the Navy 
to render professional aid to persons who are not attached to the 
naval service, or on board a ship of war, under certain exigencies. 

828 . . Officers of the Navy are entitled to the attendance of Naval 
Surgeons, to medicines, hospital stores, and surgical appliances, 
whether on duty or off duty. 

82 9.. Mercantile steam vessels shall not be hired to tow anv 



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United States vessels in or out of port unless circumstances should 
require it for their safety, or when the full use of all their own means 
may not be able to prevent injurious delays when ordered on special 
or urgent service. 

830.. Commanding Officers of vessels will see that the steam 
heaters placed on board are not removed from their positions during 
warm weather, as the practice* of taking them down and storing 
them in the hold rapidly destroys them. 

831 . . Steamers of war of the Navy are never to be used for towdng 
vessels, unless when necessary for aiding in battle, or to engage 
therein • or to enter or depart from a port during a calm or other 
impediment ; or to relieve them in distress at sea, or by special order 
from the Department. 

832 . .No officer or man attached to a vessel on the west coast of 
Africa will be permitted to be on shore before sunrise or after sun- 
set, or to sleep there at night ; this rule to apply not only to the 
continental coast, but to the Cape de Verde Islands. No United 
States vessel will ascend or anchor in any of the African rivers ex- 
cept upon imperative public service. Boat excursions up rivers, or 
hunting parties on shore, are forbidden. Vessels, when possible, will 
anchor at a reasonable distance from shore — far enough not to be 
influenced by the malaria floated off by the land breeze. Conva- 
lescents from fever and other diseases, when condemned by medical 
survey, are to be sent to the United States with the least possible 
delay. When the general health of a ship's company shall be re- 
ported as impaired by cruising upon the southern or equatorial por- 
tion of the coast, the earliest possible opportunity will be given 
them to recruit, by transferring the ship, for a time, to the Canaries, 
or other windward islands of the station. Boat and shore duty, 
involving exposure to sun and rain, is to be performed, so far as the 
exigencies of the service will permit, by "Kroonien" employed for 
that purpose. All possible protection from like exposure is to be 
afforded to the ship's company on board ; and the proper clothing 
and diet of the crew, as well as the ventilation and care of the 
decks, will be made a frequent subject for the inspection and advice 
of the medical officers. 

833 ..All "slush" which may not be required for the use of the 
vessel, or the messes of the men, shall be sold, and the proceeds paid 



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over to the Paymaster, who shall receive, disburse, and account for 
the same, under the direction of the Captain, for the following pur- 
poses, viz : For premiums to the Captains of guns who shall fire most 
accurately at a target when exercising with ball ; to men making 
the best shots with small arms ; for musical instruments and music, 
exclusive of that for the band ; for furnishing rough clothing for the 
cook and his assistants, and for the Captain of the hold. 

834.. When any barrels or packages in which provisions or other 
articles have been received on board shall have been emptied, they 
shall, if they cannot be returned to a navy yard or station, be dis- 
posed of to the best advantage to the public service. If sold, the 
amount received for the same shall be paid to the Paymaster, and 
reported and accounted for by him in the same manner as other pub- 
lic moneys; and all articles so sold, and the amounts paid to the 
Paymaster, shall be entered in the log-book, and reports of sales, 
with approval of the Commander, forwarded. 

835 ..Whenever any articles from a vessel of war may be sold 
abroad, it is strictly enjoined that all the port regulations or cus- 
tom-house laws referring to such articles shall be rigidly complied 
with. 

836. -Ships of war will take pilots only when it is deemed neces- 
sary, and pay them such rates as the laws of the States respectively 
authorize. Pilots will not be called on board until the ship is ready 
to proceed to sea, and will be paid only from that time. In coming 
from sea, the pilot will be dischar^d the moment his services are 
no longer absolutely necessary. Coast j)ilots may be employed when 
approved by the Secretary of the Navy, or the Commander-in-Chief 
of a squadron. Their pay is to be governed by the direct decision 
of the Department. During the stay of a pilot on board, he shall 
be furnished with a cot or hammock, and bedding, and a suitable 
place be appointed for his sleeping. ]Je will take his meals at the 
ward-room table, or in such other mess as the Commanding Officer 
may direct. The employment of pilots does not relieve the Com- 
manding Officer from responsibility. 

83 7.. All mail matter conveyed by vessels of the Navy is to be 
delivered, immediately after arrival in port, to the postmaster of the 
place. 

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to reside on board national vessels, nor to become passengers therein, 
nnless by tbe assent of the Secretary of the Navy. 

839 . .Women are not to be taken to sea from the United States in 
any vessel of the Navy, without permission from the Secretary of 
the Navy ; nor when on foreign service, without the express permis- 
sion of the Commander-in-Chief of the fleet or squadron, or of the 
senior officer present, and then only to make a passage from one 
port to another. 

840 . .No seaman or other seafaring man, not being a citizen of the 
United States, shall be admitted or received as a passenger on board 
of any public vessel of the United States in a foreign port, without 
permission in writing from the proper officers of the country of 
which such seaman or seafaring man may be a subject or citizen. 

841. -The law in relation to distilled liquors on board vessels of 
the Navy does not include ale, beer, wine, or other liquors not dis- 
tilled. 

842 ..When gold, silver, or jewels, shall be placed on board any 
vessel of the Navy for freight or safe-keeping, the Commander of the 
vessel shall sign bills of lading for the amount, and be responsible 
for the treasure. The usual percentage shall be demanded from the 
shippers of the treasure, and its amount shall be divided as follows : 
One-fourth to the Commander-in-Chief of the fleet or squadron to 
which the vessel may belong ; one-half to the Commander of the 
vessel ; one-fourth to the navy pulsion fund. When a Commander- 
in-Chief of a fleet or squadron cloes not participate in a division of 
the amount, then two-thirds of the whole of it shall inure to the 
Commander of the vessel, and the remainder to the pension fund. 

843 . . Sunday must be observed on board of all vessels of the Navy, 
and at all stations and navy yards, in an orderly manner, by officers 
and men. All labor or duty will be reduced to the measure of strict 
necessity. The religious tendencies of officers and men are to be 
encouraged, and suitable times and places will be assigned for Di- 
vine worship. 

844. -No Line Officer of the Navy will, by virtue of any assimila- 
ted rank or otherwise, claim or exercise any command over any part 
of the land forces of the United States on shore ; nor will he permit 
the assumption of authority or command by any officer of the Army 
over any vessel, or other part of the force under his orders. Co- 



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operation with the Army is strictly enjoined whenever it may be re- 
quested, if, in the opinion of the officer in command, his force and 
other circumstances will permit. 

845. -All Officers of the Line, when on duty, from the grade of 
Rear- Admiral to Commander, inclusive, will be addressed by their 
proper title. The word " Captain " will be used only in reference to, 
or when applied to, the officer holding that rank ; and all Line Offi- 
cers below the rank of Commander, whether commanding or not, 
will be addressed either by the title of their grade, or as Mr. Offi- 
cers of the Marine Corps above the rank of First Lieutenant, will 
be addressed by their military title, brevet or lineal ; of and below 
that rank, by their title, or as Mr. Officers not of the Line will be 
addressed by their titles, or as Mr., or as Dr., as the case maybe. 

846 ..No officer will claim any rank by virtue of any temporary 
position he may hold, other than that prescribed by law. 

847- -So far as the public service will permit, and supplies can 
be procured, Commanding Officers of fleets or squadrons will require 
their vessels to visit alternately all the places within the limits of 
their command where American commerce extends, unless otherwise 
directed by the Secretary of the Navy. The vessels will take ad- 
vantage of the trade wind and currents, and thus economize in the 
use of coal. 

848. -Lengthy anchorage in ports where no public exigency re- 
quires the presence of a vessel is forbidden ; also the wintering of 
the vessels of a squadron in port. 

849 . . Commanders of fleets or squadrons, and of vessels on special 
service abroad, will cause the Secretary of the Navy to be furnished 
quarterly with a cruising report, in the following form : 



Vessel. 



Rate. 



Commanding 
Officer. 



Ports visited 
and date. 



Days 

at sea. 



Days in 
port. 



Remarks. 



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850.. Commanding Officers of fleets or squadrons, single ships, 
navy yards, and naval stations, will forward to the Department, at 
the end of each month, reports of all suspensions, arrests, or confine- 
ments of officers under their command, made out in accordance with 
the annexed form : 

United States Naval Station, 

18 . 
Monthly report of all officers who have been placed under suspension, q/r- 
rest, or in confinement, within the limits of this station, for the month 
ending 



Name. 



Rank 
or rate. 



Suspension, arrest, or 
confinement, and if 
the latter, its na- 
ture. 



By whose 
order. 



Date. 



Remarks. 



Commanding Station. 



' , Secretary of the Navy, 

Washington City. 



851.. Such of the forms, indicated in the Book of Regulations, 
as shall not be furnished in blank by the Department or its Bureaus, 
are to be prepared in manuscript by or under the direction of those 
who are required to use them. 

8 5 2.. Commanders of fleets, squadrons, stations, and vessels act- 
ing singly, will indorse upon the orders of ail officers reporting for 
duty the dates thereof. 

853 ..Commanders of vessels will report the dates on which the 
vessels under their commands are regularly put into commission, to 
the Bureau of Navigation, and transmit, at the same time, correct 
lists of all the officers then and there present on board for duty. 



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854. -Officers ordered to duty on board a vessel already in com- 
mission for sea-service, will, immediately after reporting for duty 
and joining that vessel, report the facts and date to the Bureau of 
Navigation. 

855.. Commandants of navy yards and stations will promptly re- 
port to the Department the departure of vessels from, or their arrival 
within, the limits of their command, stating the destination of the 
vessel or the quarter from which it came, as the case may be, and 
the Commanding Officer thereof. 

85 6.. Commandants of navy yards and stations, Commanders of 
fleets or squadrons, and Commanders of vessels, will communicate 
to the appropriate bureau any faults in the Book of Allowances, as 
ascertained from its actual use, and any suggestions that, in their 
opinion, would tend to its perfection. 

ARTICLE IX. 

Applications — Qualifications— Examinations- Appointments 
and Promotions — Ratings and IHsratings. 

Section 1. — Applications and Qualifications. 

85 7.. Applications of candidates for admission into the Naval 
Academy must conform to the regulations of that institution, which 
contain all the information necessary, together with a description 
of the requisite qualifications. 

858 . . All applications for admission into the Navy, in any capacity, 
can be made to the Secretary of the Navy, at any time, by the candi- 
date himself, or by his parent, guardian, or any friend. No applica- 
tion will be considered unless strictly in accordance with the follow- 
ing rules. The registry of a name will give no assurance of permis- 
sion to be examined, as the Department reserves to itself the right 
of selecting for examination those whom it may consider most likely 
to be of service to the country. 

85 9.. All applications must state the age, birth-place, and resi- 
dence of the candidate, who must also furnish certificates of his 
moral and physical qualifications. An applicant for the ofiice of 
Assistant Naval Constructor must furnish, in addition to the fore- 
going, evidence showing that he is a shipwright by profession, that 



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he has been engaged in that business, and must present the certifi- 
cate of the persons with whom the business was learned, and those 
by whom he has since been employed. (Form No. 16, appendix.) 

860 ..No person will be appointed to any commissioned or war- 
ranted office in the Navy until he shall have passed a physical and 
a professional examination. The physical examinations shall pre- 
cede the professional, and if a candidate should be deemed physically 
unlit, he will not be examined otherwise. The passing of an exam- 
ination must not be considered as giving any assurance of appoint- 
ment, as the Department reserves to itself the right to select those 
persons of the highest attainments, in case there should be more 
candidates than vacancies. 

861.. A candidate for the appointment of Master's Mate must be 
of sober and correct habits ; he must be not less than eighteen nor 
more than thirty-five years of age ; he must have been at sea before 
the mast or as an officer. The recommendation by Commanding 
Officers, of Petty Officers or men, for zeal or gallantry, may entitle 
them to examination. 

862 . .A candidate for a Boatswain's appointment must be of sober 
and correct habits; be must be not less than twenty-one nor more 
than thirty-five years of age; he must have been at least seven 
years at sea, and have served one complete year of that time as a 
Petty Officer in the Navy ; he must be a thorough, practical seaman ? 
and understand the rigging of ships according to regulations, and 
the cutting and fitting of the same ; also, the weighing, catting, 
fishing, securing and transportation of anchors, and the working of 
cables ; the erection and securing of shears, the handling of pur- 
chases, the masting of ships, the securing of yards, and be able to 
write sufficiently well to keep an account of stores. 

863 . . A candidate for a Gunner's appointment must be of sober 
and correct habits ; he must be not less than twenty-one nor more 
than thirty-five years of age ; he must understand the fitting and 
arrangement of magazines, light-rooms, passages, and shell-rooms ; 
the stowage and preservation of ammunition, fireworks, and ord- 
nance stores generally ; the proportion of powder for guns of every 
class, the method of making and filling cartridges, the construction, 
strapping, filling and fusing of shells, the application of fuses of all 
kinds, and the use of fireworks ; also, the making of cartridges for 



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small arms, of wads, both junk and grommet ; the fitting of gun- 
gear, the details and use of gun-carriages of all kinds, the securing 
and transportation of guns, the use of gun-sights, and the exercise 
established by regulations ; he must also be able to write sufficiently 
well to keep an account of stores, and to make up his returns as re- 
quired in the ordnance ledger. 

864 . . A candidate for a Carpenter's appointment must be of sober 
and correct habits ; he must be not less than twenty-one nor more 
than thirty-five years of age ; he must be a good shipwright, under- 
stand caulking, the fishing of masts and yards, and the quality and 
strength of timber; also, how to unship and hang a rudder, to con- 
struct and hang a jury-rudder, and be able to write sufficiently well 
to keep an account of stores. 

865 . . A candidate for a Sailmaker's appointment must be of sober 
and correct habits ; he must be not less than twenty-one nor more 
than thirty-five years of age ; he must be a good workman in his line 
of business; be capable of draughting, and understand thoroughly 
the cutting and making of sails, awnings, hammock-cloths, boom- 
covers, and wind-sails for a vessel of war, and be able to write suffi- 
ciently well to keep an account of stores. 

866.. A candidate for an appointment as Second Assistant En- 
gineer must not be less than nineteen nor more than twenty-six 
years of age ; he must be of moral character and correct habits ; he 
must have worked not less than eighteen months in a steam-engine 
manufactory, or else have served not less than that period as an 
engineer on board a steamer provided with a condensing engine, 
and have secured a favorable impression of the director or head 
engineer as to his ability ; he must be able to describe and sketch 
all the different parts of the marine steam-engine and boilers, and 
to explain their uses and mechanical operation, the manner of put- 
ting them in operation, regulating their action, and guarding against 
danger. He must be well acquainted with arithmetic, and must be 
perfectly competent to manage a marine engine. He should have 
a good knowledge of the chemistry of combustion and corrosion, 
mechanics, and mensuration, and write a legible hand. 

867 ..A candidate for the office of Assistant Naval Constructor 
must be not less than twenty-four nor more than thirty-five years 
of age ; he must be of good moral character, have an accurate 



124 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Examinations. 

knowledge of arithmetic, of the nature and use of logarithms ; be 
able to resolve a simple algebraic formula into numbers; be ac- 
quainted with the primary elements of geometry, descriptive geome- 
try, mensuration, naval architectural drawing, and laying off on 
the mould-loft floor, and with practical building. 

868 . . A candidate for the office of Assistant Paymaster must be 
not less than twenty-one nor more than twenty-six years of age. 
His moral and mental qualifications, as well as his fitness for the 
office he solicits, will be subjects of rigid investigation. 

869.. A candidate for the office of Assistant Surgeon must be not 
less than twenty-one nor more than twenty-six years of age. His 
moral, mental, and professional qualifications will be decided upon 
by the board. 

8 70.. An applicant for the office of Chaplain must be not less 
than twenty-one nor more than thirty-five years of age. He must 
be a regularly ordained minister. 

871.. No person shall be appointed a Secretary who is under 
twenty-one years of age ; nor shall any person be appointed a Clerk 
who is under eighteen years of age. The officers who may nomi- 
nate secretaries or clerks, will be responsible for their moral char- 
acter and fitness for the duties they are to perform. 

Section 2. — Examinations. 

872.. At stated or convenient periods, boards will be ordered for 
the examination of candidates for appointment or promotion, who 
will be duly informed of the time and place of meeting. Before 
proceeding to the examination of any candidate for appointment, 
the medical officers who may be ordered for the purpose will furnish 
to the board, to examine professionally, a certificate of the physical 
fitness of each candidate who may pass the examination ; and also 
a list of those who may be found to be physically unfit for the service. 
No person will be passed by the medical board who is not free from 
physical defects, and all obvious tendency to any form of disease 
which would be likely to interfere with a prompt and efficient dis- 
charge of duty. In the case of an Assistant Surgeon, the board of 
examiners will scrutinize his physical qualifications, and will make 
a separate report in each case, direct to the Department, to be placed 



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on file with his testimonials. The board to examine professionally, 
having received the certificate of the physical fitness of the candi- 
date, will proceed to examine him on all the required qualifications ; 
it will grant certificates to those who may be found duly qualified, 
numbering them in succession in the order of relative merit. It 
will, besides, report to the authority convening them, at the close 
of a session, the result of all their investigations, and forward all 
the documentary evidence they may have received in relation to 
the capacity and fitness of parties. 

873. -The board of Na\al Surgeons will assemble annually, and 
usually about the close of the lecture season. In no case admitting 
of a reasonable doubt will it report favorably, as the health and 
lives of the officers and men of the Navy are objects too important 
to be intrusted to ignorant or incompetent persons. 

874 ..Boards for the examination of candidates for appointment 
or promotion shall be composed as follows : For a Mate, of three 
Line Officers, one of whom shall be of, or above, the rank of Lieu- 
tenant Commander. For a Boatswain or Gunner, of three Line 
Officers, one of whom shall be of, or above, the rank of Lieutenant 
Commander. For a Carpenter or Sailmaker, of three Line Officers, 
one of whom shall be of, or above, the rank of Lieutenant Com- 
mander. For Engineer Officers, of one Rear-Admiral and not less 
than three Chief Engineers. For Passed Assistant and Assistant 
Paymasters, of one Rear- Admiral and not less than three Paymas- 
ters. For Assistant Naval Constructors, of one Rear- Admiral, one 
Professor of Mathematics, and not less than three Constructors. 

875 ..Candidates who may exhibit the highest degree of practi- 
cal experience and professional skill will be given the preference, 
both in admission and promotion. 

8 76 ..No qualified candidate will be held over for appointment 
more than one year. If not appointed within that time, it will be 
necessary for the candidate to be re-examined, when he will take 
position, if successful, with the class last examined. 

877 ..Any person who shall fail to present himself for examina- 
tion after having obtained permission, will be considered as having 
forfeited his right to be examined, and any officer who shall fail to 
present himself after having been ordered so to do, (unless for rea- 
sons satisfactory to the Department,) will be dropped from the list. 



126 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Appointments and Promotions. 

8 78.. Any Assistant Surgeon or Assistant Paymaster who, after 
examination, shall be reported by the board as not qualified for 
promotion, shall be dropped from the list of officers of the Navy. 

8 79.. Any officer who may have been absent from the United 
States on duty, or have been excused by the Department from at- 
tending at the time when others of his date were examined, will, if 
not rejected at a subsequent examination, be entitled to the same 
rank with them, and if, from any cause, his relative seniority cannot 
be assigned, he shall retain his original relative position on the reg- 
ister. In order, however, that the relative position of officers of the 
same date who may be examined for promotion at different times 
may be more readily determined, a majority of the members of the 
board will be selected, if practicable, from those who served on the 
next preceding board. 

880 . . No allowance will be made for the expenses of persons un- 
dergoing examinations for appointments, as the latter are indispen- 
sable prerequisites to appointment. An exception to this rule will 
be made in the case of candidates for admission to the Naval Acad- 
emy, who, if successful, will be allowed their actual traveling 
expenses. 

881.. Any person producing a false certificate of age, time of ser- 
vice or character, or making a false statement to a board of exami- 
nation, will be immediately dropped. 

Section 3. — Appointments and Promotions. 

882.. Any person having passed an examination will be eligible 
to an appointment. Appointments will be made as vacancies may 
occur, in. the order of merit as reported by the board. Every per- 
son on receiving an appointment from the Department to any office 
in the Navy, will forward a letter of acceptance immediately to the 
Department, together with the oath of allegiance duly signed and 
certified. (See appendix, form No. 17.) 

883.. No officer shall, when within the jurisdiction of the United 
States, unless authorized by the Secretary of the Navy, appoint any 
person not holding a commission or warrant in the Navy to perform 
the duties of a commissioned or warranted officer, nor give to any 
commissioned or warranted officer any acting appointment. An ex- 



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Appointments and Promotions. 

ception to this rule will be found in the fourth section of the act to 
provide for the appointment of Assistant Paymasters, approved 
July 17, 1861. 

884. .No officer, other than the Commander-in-Chief of a fleet or 
squadron, shall give any acting appointment, except as provided for 
in the last paragraph ; nor shall any such acting appointment be 
issued unless a lasting vacancy should occur in the established 
complement of a vessel of the Navy, which cannot be filled from 
supernumerary officers on board other vessels of the fleet, squadron, 
or division, and in such case it shall be in writing, and be subject 
to revocation by himself, or by his successor, or by the Secretary of 
the Navy. In the case of a vacancy by death on board any vessel 
absent from the United States, and acting singly, the Commanding 
Officer may issue a ivritten order to supply the deficiency, which 
shall continue in force until the vessel falls in with the Commander- 
in-Chief, or arrives in the United States. 

885.. Temporary vacancies on board vessels not within the 
United States, occasioned by the continued indisposition of officers,, 
their absence on duty, or inability to perform it, may be filled by a 
written order from the Commander-in-Chief, or senior officer pres- 
ent, to other officers of the fleet, squadron, division, or vessel, who 
will perform the duties of such sick, absent, or incompetent officers, 
until their return to duty, or until further orders be received from 
competent authority. All such orders may be revoked by the offi- 
cer from whom they issued. 

886.. No Commanding Officer of a vessel which may be ordered 
to sail from the United States, or which may be separated from the 
Commander-in-Chief of the fleet or squadron to which such vessel 
belongs, shall issue any order to fill vacancies among offices which 
existed and could have been reported to the Navy Department in 
time for orders to be issued to other officers before sailing, or to the 
Commander-in-Chief before the separation occurred. 

88 7.. All acting appointments and orders directing an officer to 
perform duties higher than those of his proper grade must specify 
the vessel on board which he is to act, and in case of subsequent 
removal to another vessel, a new appointment or order must be 
given, except when the original shall have issued from the Navy 
Department. 



128 RECHJLATIONS FOR THE 

Appointments and Promotions, 

888.. Officers conferring acting appointments, or giving orders to 
fill vacancies, will promptly inform the Department of such trans- 
actions, and of the reasons which governed them. In no case will 
the established complement of the vessel be exceeded. If an acting 
appointment or order to perform duties belonging to a higher grade 
be revoked, the reasons for the revocation must be immediately re- 
ported to the Department. 

889. -An officer holding an acting appointment will wear the uni- 
form of the grade to which he is appointed, and will annex $he 
title of his acting rank to his official signature; when the duty 
ceases, he must relinquish the uniform, but when holding only an 
order to perform the duties of a higher grade, he will not change his 
uniform nor his official designation. 

890 . . All officers when commanding a vessel of war, or acting as 
Chief-of-Staff, shall be allowed to appoint a clerk. 

891.. Every officer entitled to a secretary or clerk may nominate 
him. But the appointment or discharge of a clerk by any officer 
not in command shall be subject to the approval of the Commander 
of the vessel ; the latter, however, will not refuse his approval ex- 
cept for good and sufficient reasons, which he will state in writing 
to such officer. No secretary or clerk shall be entered upon the mus- 
ter-roll of any vessel, nor be entitled to any pay, until he shall have 
accepted his appointment by letter, in duplicate, binding himself 
therein to be subject to the laws and regulations for the government 
of the Navy, and the discipline of the vessel, so long as his appoint- 
ment may continue. One of these letters in duplicate shall be trans- 
mitted immediately to the Department by the officer conferring the 
appointment, together with the oath of allegiance ; the other copy 
of the letter of acceptance shall be preserved by that officer. In the 
case of any clerk appointed by an officer not in command, the letter* 
of acceptance sent to the Department must bear the approval of the 
Commander of the vessel. The acceptance of an appointment as 
secretary or clerk shall be understood as binding such person to 
serve with the officer who appointed him until regularly discharged, 
or until the return of such officer to the United States. 

89 2.. Masters-at-arms and Yeomen will be appointed by the Com- 
mander of the vessel ; Apothecaries and Nurses will be appointed by 
the Surgeon, and Paymaster's Yeomen by the Paymaster ; but all 



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Appointments and Promotions. 

such appointments must bear the approval of the Commander of the 
vessel or station. They will be entered on the ship's books after 
having been found physically qualified, have taken the oath of alle- 
giance, and have signed an agreement (form No. 18, appendix) to 
serve faithfully for the cruise or otherwise, to be amenable to the 
laws, regulations, and discipline of the service, and to be subject 
to discharge in case of misbehavior, in any port, foreign or domes- 
tic, without claim for passage money, the fact of misbehavior to be 
established by a summary court-martial, appointed by the Com- 
mander of the vessel. This agreement must be executed in dupli- 
cate, one copy of which, approved by the Commander of the vessel, 
together with the oath of allegiance, shall be forwarded to the De- 
partment, and the other copjy shall be retained by the Commander of 
the vessel. The physical examination of Apothecaries and Nurses 
will be made by the officer appointing them. Masters-at-arms, Yeo- 
men, and Paymaster's Yeomen, will be examined by the Surgeon of 
the vessel or of the station. The Petty Officers named in this para- 
graph, together with the Orderly Sergeant of Marines, shall be 
allowed to mess separately on the berth-deck. 

893. .The Surgeon of every vessel of the Navy may appoint, for 
duties connected with the medical department, an apothecary, and 
on board every vessel commissioned for sea-service he may appoint 
one nurse, when the complement is less than (200) two hundred, and 
when it is (200) two hundred and over, two or more nurses, subject to 
the approval of the Commanding Officer. Nurses will be allowed on 
board receiving-ships, in numbers proportionate to the necessities of 
the case. 

894. -No Paymaster, Passed Assistant Paymaster, or Assistant 
Paymaster, shall be allowed a clerk in a vessel having the comple- 
ment of one hundred (100) persons, or less, excepting in supply- 
steamers and store-vessels. Paymaster's Yeomen will be allowed in 
all vessels having a complement of twenty persons and over. 

895. -Whenever an officer is appointed Commander-in-Chief of a 
fleet or squadron, he will be allowed to nominate to the Department 
an officer not below the grade of Commander, to serve as Chief-of- 
Staff, and such other officers of lower grade as maybe necessary for 
him to have on his personal staff, who, if allowed by the Depart- 
ment, will be in addition to the complement of the flag-ship. 

9ne 



130 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Appointments and Pi*omotions. 

896. .The Commander-in-Chief of a fleet or squadron, in the ease 
of a vacancy occurring on a foreign station, may order the Senior 
Surgeon, Senior Paymaster, or Senior Engineer of the squadron, to 
perform the duty of Fleet Surgeon, Fleet Paymaster, or Fleet En- 
gineer, if such officers are authorized, unless from disability, or other 
good cause, it he found necessary to select another of the same, or 
of a lower grade, for the purpose. 

897. -No officer is to order into service or to assign to duty any 
officer who is on leave of absence or furlough, or make any change 
in the distribution or arrangement of officers established by the 
Secretary of the Navy, except in cases of emergency, and then he 
shall report his acts to the Department without delay. 

898 . . If an officer be promoted while in command of a vessel on 
foreign service, he is not, on that account, to be removed from his 
command until instructions be received from the Secretary of the 
Navy. 

899 ..As a general rule, Ensigns, Masters, Lieutenants, or Lieu- 
tenant Commanders will not be nominated for promotion to the 
next higher grade until they shall have performed as such, respect- 
ively, at least one year's sea service, exclusive of coast survey 
service. 

900. -Masters who have not been promoted from Ensigns are not 
to be considered eligible to further advancement, except under ex- 
traordinary circumstances. 

901. -No officer will be promoted to the grade of Lieutenant until 
he has served one year as Master, one year as Ensign, and at least 
one year as Midshipman after leaving the Naval Academy. 

902. -Masters, Ensigns, and Midshipmen serving on board any 
naval steamer, will hereafter be taught thoroughly the duty of steam 
enginery. They will be divided into four watches on deck, and the 
same number in the engine and fire rooms, and will serve alternately 
on deck and below whenever steam power is used. 

903. -Any person having served six months at sea under an acting 
appointment as Boatswain, Gunner, Carpenter, or Sailmaker, may be 
eligible to a warrant bearing the same date as his acting appoint- 
ment, provided the Commanding Officers under whom he may have 
served shall have certified favorably as to his merits. 

904 ...Candidates for promotion to the grade of First Assistant 



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Appointments and Promotions. 

Engineer must have served at least two years at sea as Second As- 
sistant Engineer on board of a naval steamer ; favorable testimonials 
must have been received by the Department from the Commanding 
Officers and Senior Engineers under whom tliey may have served. 
They must also pass, before the board appointed to examine them, a 
thorough examination upon the subjects prescribed for Second As- 
sistant Engineers, and, in addition thereto, be able to explain 
properly the principles, peculiarities and uses of the different kinds 
of valves and valve-gear applied to marine steam machinery; the 
construction, principles, peculiarities, and uses of the various a|3pa- 
ratus for working steam expansively; the construction of the various 
marine boilers commonly used, together with their attachments^ 
uses of the same, and the reasons therefor ; the causes of derange- 
ment in the operation of air and feed pumps and feed pipes, and how 
to prevent and remedy them ; the chemistry of boiler scale, the 
means of preventing it, and the mode of removing it ; the construc- 
tion, principles, peculiarities, and uses of the different kinds of sur- 
face condensers ; how to calculate the loss by u bio wing-off,' 7 with 
the sea-water in the boiler at a given concentration ; the principles 
of, and the manner of using, the various instruments for determining 
the water's concentration, and the method of graduating them ; the 
theory of using steam expansively, together with the limits and 
modifications imposed by practice, and the necessary calculations 
connected therewith ; the construction and mode of applying the 
indicator, and the interpretation of its diagrams ; the construction 
and principles of the various steam and vacuum gauges, and the 
causes of their derangement ; and besides, they must have a thorough 
knowledge of rudimentary mechanics, be well versed in the elements 
of geometry, including descriptive, and be well acquainted with the 
practical building and repairing of steam machinery. 

905 . . Candidates for promotion to the grade of Chief Engineer, 
must have served at least two years at sea as First Assistant Engi- 
neer on board of a naval steamer; favorable testimonials must have 
been received by the Department from the Commanding Officers and 
Senior Engineers under whom they may have served. They must 
also pass, before the board appointed to examine them, a thorough 
examination upon the subjects prescribed for First Assistant En- 
gineers, and in addition thereto, they must satisfy it that they 



132 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Appointments and Promotions. 

are well versed in mechanical philosophy, the physical laws of steam, 
applied mechanics, the theory of the steam engine, and likewise in 
the construction, principles, and the laws of action of various 
types of marine governors, paddle-wheels, and screw-propellers, and 
in all the necessary calculations relating to these. Furthermore, 
they must satisfy the hoard that they are thoroughly acquainted 
with the various kinds of paddle-wheel and screw-propeller engines, 
able to point out their respective advantages and disadvantages, to 
design and erect the same, and to proportion them to a given vessel, 
for a given speed, with a given propelling instrument ; that they are 
thoroughly versed in the strength of materials, in the theoretical 
laws governing form, the limits and modifications imposed by prac- 
tice, and the reasons connected therewith; that they are familiar 
with the different kinds of boilers, their respective advantages and 
disadvantages, and able to properly proportion and construct the 
same for supplying a given power under given conditions ; and that 
they do understand so much of chemistry as is involved in the laws 
of combustion and corrosion, and the metallurgic operations con- 
nected with steam engineering. 

906. -When, in the opinion of the Department, the wants of the 
service require a greater number of Engineers of any grade above 
that of Second Assistant than can be obtained by regular promotion, 
candidates presenting themselves for admission will have to undergo 
the same examination as that prescribed for the grade to which they 
may aspire ; and with regard to subsequent promotion, the same 
length of sea-service prescribed as necessary to advancement from 
one grade to another will be required. But all persons so appointed 
to the grade of Second Assistant Engineer must be between the ages 
of twenty-one and twenty-eight ; all to the grade of First Assistant 
Engineer, between twenty-five and thirty-two ; and all to that of 
Chief Engineer between twenty-eight and thirty-five. 

90 7.. Assistant Surgeons, after five years' service in the Navy, at 
least two years of which shall have been passed on board a public 
vessel of the United States at sea, shall be entitled to an examination 
for promotion. Testimonials of correct deportment and habits of 
industry from the Surgeons and Commanding Officers with whom 
they have been associated on duty must have been received by the 
Dex>artment, and they shall present to the board a journal of prac- 



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Eatings and Disratings. 

tice, or case-book, in their own handwriting. They are expected to 
be familiar with all the details of duty specified in the " Instructions 
for the Government of Medical Officers." 

908.. Candidates for promotion to the grade of Paymaster must 
satisfy the examining board of their competency to perform the 
various duties of Paymaster. They must be well acquainted with 
all laws and regulations relating to the duties and responsibilities of 
the position they aspire to. They must have a good theoretical and 
practical knowledge of book-keeping, and the law and practice of 
exchange, the value of foreign coins as compared with those of the 
United States, and the weights and measures of foreign countries ; 
and they must have a sufficient knowledge of the Spanish and French 
languages to enable them to transact the business of their depart- 
ments in those lauguages. But the acquaintance of these languages 
is not to be exacted until four years after the promulgation of this 
regulation. They must produce satisfactory testimonials from their 
Commanding Officers of their conduct, character and deportment, 
and from the Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, and also from the 
Fourth Auditor's Office that their accounts have been well kept and 
promptly rendered, and that their returns have been properly and 
seasonably made. 

909 . . Candidates for promotion to the grade of Naval Constructor 
must have been at least five years in the service as Assistant Naval 
Constructors ; they must pass, before the board appointed to examine 
them, a satisfactory examination in Euclid's Elements, algebra, with 
its application to geometry, plane trigonometry, conic sections, de- 
scriptive geometry, mechanics, strength of materials; calculation of 
displacement, of stability, of center of gravity, of center of effort, 
and other matters relating to the theory of naval architecture, as 
well as the practice in building ships of wood and of iron. 



Section 4. — Ratings and Disratings. 

910 ..On a crew being transferred from a receiving vessel to a 
vessel of the Navy intended for sea-service, the officer ordered to 
command her is to select and have rated from such crew the different 
Petty Officers allowed by the Department for one of her class. 



134 REGULATIONS EOR THE 

Eatings and Disratifigs. 

911.. In the event of a vacancy occurring among the appointed 
Petty Officers, if a suitable person can be found among the crew of 
the vessel, the Commanding Officer may rate such person, and cause 
him to perform the duties appertaining to the vacant situation. The 
rating of such person will not discharge him from his enlistment, 
however ; but in case that it should be revoked, he will return to his 
former rate on the ship's books. 

912 . .No enlisted person shall be transferred from any quarter to 
any vessel, navy yard, station, or hospital, with the rating of a Petty 
Officer, excepting machinists. 

9 13.. No Petty Officer, or person of inferior rating, shall ever be 
disrated by the Commander of a vessel, unless he shall have received 
his rating from that Commander ; and this shall be done for good 
and sufficient cause only, which must be stated in the log. But any 
Commanding Officer transferring his command shall previously re- 
duce all persons who may have been rated by himself to the rates 
they held at the time of joining his ship, and his successor shall 'ap- 
point them immediately to the same rates. In case, however, of the 
death of any Commanding Officer, his captivity, or any other cir- 
cumstance which may vacate his command, all ratings established 
by himself shall also be vacated, subject to re-establishment by his 
successor, as provided for above, except those of such persons as a 
Commander is allowed to take with him from one ship to another? 
who shall not be reinstated, unless such successor shall fail to bring 
with him other persons to fill their situations. If not reinstated, the 
Cockswain shall resume the rate he held on joining the vessel, and 
the steward, cook, and one other person of inferior rating, shall be 
regarded as having fulfilled their enlistment, and be entitled to their 
discharge, if they desire it, unless they enlisted for the ordinary 
duties of deck-hands, in which case they shall resume their former 
rates and serve their full time. 

9 14.. No person having enlisted in any particular rate shall be 
reduced to a lower rate, except by order of the Department, or to 
carry out the sentence of a court-martial, except as provided below 
for firemen, coal-heavers, and machinists. 

915.. No person, about to be discharged from a vessel going out 
of commission, or transferred and sent home to be discharged, shall 
be disrated by reason of such discharge or transfer, but his rate, 



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Rules to Prevent Collisions. 

whatever it may be, shall be expressed on the face of his discharge 
or transfer for that purpose. 

916. .Whenever a change of rating takes place, an order in writing 
will be given by the Commander of the vessel to the Paymaster, 
stating the change of rate and the time from which it is to date ; but 
no such order shall be given in one quarter to take effect in a pre- 
ceding quarter. 

917 ..Should any machinist, fireman, or coal-heaver be reported 
by the Senior Engineer of the vessel for neglect of his duty, or ina- 
bility to perform it, from other causes than sickness, or injury re- 
ceived in line of duty, the Commanding Officer of the squadron, or, 
in his absence, the Commanding Officer of the vessel to which such 
machinist, fireman, or coal-heaver belongs, may, if he deems it neces- 
sary, direct another person to perform it during the continuance of 
such neglect or disability, or until the place is supplied by a person 
of the proper rating, and the person so appointed shall receive the 
pay of the situation which he may thus fill. But the Commanding 
Officer shall, when it is practicable, direct first-class firemen to sup- 
ply the places of machinists ; second-class firemen to succeed or supply 
the places of the first-class ; and the coal-heavers, if qualified, should 
take the place of the second-class firemen in preference to other 
persons. The pay of such reduced fireman or coal-heaver is provided 
for under the head of allowances. 

AETICLE X. 
Rules to Prevent Collisions. 

918 ..The following rules for preventing collisions on the water 
are to be strictly observed in the Navy, with the understanding, 
however, that the exhibition of any light on board a vessel of the 
Navy may be suspended, whenever, in the opinion of the Secretary 
of the Navy, the Commander-in-Chief of a squadron, the senior officer 
present, or the Commander of a vessel acting singly, the special 
character of the service may require it— as in blockading, &c. 

919 -. Article 1. Preliminary. 

RULES CONCERNING LIGHTS. 

Article 2. Lights to be carried as follows. 



136 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Bules to Prevent Collisions. 

Article 3. Lights for steamships. 

Article 4. Lights for steam tugs. 

Article 5. Lights for sailing ships. 

Article 6. Exceptional lights for small sailing vessels. 

Article 7. Lights for ships at anchor. 

Article 8. Lights for pilot vessels. 

Article 9. Lights for fishing vessels and boats. 

RULES CONCERNING FOG-SIGNALS. 

Article 10. Fog-signals. 

STEERING AND SAILING RULES. 

Article 11. Two sailing ships meeting. 

Article 12, Two sailing ships crossing. 

Article 13. Two ships under steam meeting. 

Article 14. Two ships under steam crossing. 

Article 15. Sailing ship and ship under steam. 

Article 16. Ships under steam to slacken speed. 

Article 17. Vessels overtaking other vessels. 

Article 18. Construction of articles 12, 14, 15, and 17. 

Article 19. Proviso to save special cases. 

Article 20. ISTo ship, under any circumstances, to neglect proper 
precautions. 

920. -Article 1. In the following rules every steamship which 
is under sail, and not under steam, is to be considered a sailing ship ; 
and every steamship which is under steam, whether under sail or 
not, is to be considered a ship under steam. 

921 ..Article 2. The lights mentioned in the following articles, 
and no others, shall be carried, in all weather, between sunset and 
sunrise. 

922. .Article 3. All steam vessels when under way shall carry — 

(a) At the foremast head a bright white light, so fixed as to show 
an uniform and unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of twenty 
points of the compass, so fixed as to throw the light ten points on 
each side of the ship, viz : from right ahead to two points abaft the 
beam on either side, and of such a character as to be visible on a 
dark night, with a clear atmosphere, at a distance of at least five 
miles. 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 137 

Bides to Prevent Collisions. 

(b) On the starboard side a green light, so constructed as to throw 
an uniform and unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of ten 
points of the compass, so fixed as to throw the light from right ahead 
to two points abaft the beam on the starboard side, and of such a 
character as to be visible on a dark night, with a clear atmosphere, 
at a distance of at least two miles. 

(c) On the port side a red light, so constructed as to show an uni- 
form unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of ten points of the 
compass, so fixed as to throw the light from right ahead to two 
points abaft the beam on the port side, and of such a character as 
to be visible on a dark night, with a clear atmosphere, at a distance 
of at least two miles. 

(d) The said green and red lights shall be fitted with inboard 
screens, projecting at least three feet forward from the light, so as to 
prevent these lights from being seen across the bow. 

923.. Article 4. Steamships, when towing other ships, shall carry 
two bright white masthead lights, vertically, in addition to their 
side lights, so as to distinguish them from other steamships. Each 
of these masthead lights shall be of the same construction and char- 
acter as the masthead lights which other steamships are required to 
carry. 

924. -Article 5. Sailing ships under way, or being towed, shall 
carry the same lights as steamships under way, with the exception 
of the white masthead lights, which they shall never carry. 

925. -Article 6. Whenever, as in the case of small vessels during 
bad weather, the green and red lights cannot be fixed, these lights 
shall be kept on deck, on their respective sides of the vessel, ready 
for instant exhibition, and shall, on the approach of or to other ves- 
sels,, be exhibited on their respective sides in sufficient time to pre- 
vent collision, in such manner as to make them most visible, and so 
that the green light shall not be seen on the port side, nor the red 
light on the starboard side. To make the use of these portable lights 
more certain and easy, they shall each be painted outside with the 
color of the light they respectively contain, and shall be provided with 
suitable screens. 

926. -Article 7. Ships, whether steamships or sailing ships, when 
at anchor in roadsteads or fairways, shall, between sunset and sun- 
rise, exhibit, where it can best be seen, but at a height not exceeding 



138 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Bules to Prevent Collisions. 

twenty feet above the hull, a white light in a globular lantern of 
eight inches in diameter, and so constructed as to show a clear, uni- 
form , and unbroken light, visible all around the horizon, and at a 
distance of at least one mile. 

9 2 7.. Article 80 Sailing pilot vessels shall not carry the lights 
required for other sailing vessels, but shall carry a white light at the 
masthead, visible all around the horizon, and shall also exhibit a 
flare-up light every fifteen minutes. 

928 ..Article 9. Open fishing boats and other open boats shall 
not be required to carry side lights required for other vessels, but 
shall, if they do not carry such lights, carry a lantern having a green 
slide on the one side and a red slide on the other side ; and on the 
approach of or to other vessels, such lantern shall be exhibited in 
sufficient time to prevent collision, so that the green light shall not 
be seen on the port side, nor the red light on the starboard side. 
Fishiug vessels and open boats, when at anchor, or attached to their 
nets and stationary, shall exhibit a bright white light. Fishing ves- 
sels and open boats shall, however, not be prevented from using a 
flare-up in addition, if considered expedient. 

929- -Article 10. Whenever there is a fog, whether by day or 
night, the fog-signals described below shall be carried and used, and 
shall be sounded at least every ^ve minutes, viz : 

(a) Steamships under way shall use a steam whistle, placed before 
the funnel, not less than eight feet from the deck. 

(&) Sailing ships under way shall use a fog-horn. 

(c) Steamships and sailing ships when not under way shall use a 
bell. 

930 ..Article 11. If two sailing ships are meeting end on, or 
nearly end on, so as to involve risk of collision, the helms of both 
shall be put to port, so that each may pass on the port side of the 
other. 

931 --Article 12. When two sailing ships are crossing, so as to 
involve risk of collision, then, if they have the wind on different 
sides, the ship with the wind on the port side shall keep out of the 
way of the ship with the wind on the starboard side, except in the 
case in which the slnp with the wind on the port side is close-hauled, 
and the other ship free, in which case the latter ship shall keep out 
of the way. But if they have wind on the same side, or if one of 



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Bides to Prevent Collisions. 

them, has the wind aft, the ship which is to windward shall keep out 
of the way of the ship which is to leeward. 

932.. Article 13. If two ships under steam are meeting end on, 
or nearly end on, so as to involve risk of collision, the helms of both 
shall be put to port, so that each may pass on the }Dort side of the 
other. 

933 ..Article 14. If two ships under steam are crossing so as to 
involve risk of collision, the ship which has the other on her own 
starboard side shall keep out of the way of the other. 

934.. Article 15. If two ship's, one of which is a sailing ship and 
the other a steamship, are proceeding in such directions as to in- 
volve risk of collision, the steamship shall keep out of the way of 
the sailing ship. 

935. -Article 16. Every steamship, when approaching another 
ship so as to involve risk of collision, shall slacken her speed, or, if 
necessary, stop and reverse ; and every steamship shall, when in a 
fog, go at a, moderate speed. 

936 ..Article 17, Every vessel overtaking any other vessel shall 
keep out of the way of the said last-mentioned vessel. 

93 7 ..Article 18. Where, by the above rules, one of two ships is 
to keep out of the way, the other shall keep her course, subject to 
the qualifications contained in the following article. 

938. -Article 19. In obeying and construing these rules, due-re- 
gard must be had to all dangers of navigation, and due regard must 
also be had to any special circumstances which may exist in any 
particular case, rendering a departure from the above rules necessary 
in order to avoid immediate danger. 

939 . . Article 20. Nothing in these rules shall exonerate any ship, 
or the owner or master or crew thereof, from the consequences of 
any neglect to carry lights or signals, or of any neglect to keep a 
proper lookout, or of the neglect of any precaution which may be 
required by the ordinary practice of seamen, or by the special cir- 
cumstances of the case. 

940 . . Should a collision unfortunately take place, each Command- 
ing Officer is required to furnish the Department with the follow- 
ing information : 

1st. His own report, that of the pilot, the Officer of the Deck, and • 
. other officers who witnessed the occurrence. These reports and 



140 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Preservation of Health of Crew. 

statements are to be exemplified by a diagram, and must contain tlie 
courses steered, the point at which the vessel was first seen, the 
bearing, the time when the engine was slowed, when the vessel was 
stopped, whether in motion, and, if so, at what speed at the moment 
of collision, the direction of the wind, the condition of the weather 
and atmosphere, what lookouts were placed, what lights were exhib- 
ited by both vessels, whether either vessel deviated from the above 
rules and regulations, whether any blame can attach to any one, and 
if so to whom, and any and all other facts bearing upon the subject, 

2d. Written statements and estimate of damage from officers of 
the vessel with which the vessel of the United States Navy collided, 
if they can be obtained. 

3d. Survey of the injury to both vessels by United States officers. 

4th. If the vessel is in charge of a pilot, and the collision has oc- 
curred from his acting in violation of the above rules and regula- 
tions, the fact must be established in the report, and no pilotage 
paid to him. 

ARTICLE XI. 
Preservation of Health of Crew. 

941.. As cleanliness, dryness, and pure air, are essential to health, 
the Commanding Officer is to use his utmost endeavor to secure each 
in the greatest degree possible. Sea water is not to be admitted to 
the holds, the ship is always to be pumped dry, the pump-well fre- 
quently swabbed out and dried, and a solution of nitrate of lead or 
sulphate of iron, and whitewash, used wherever it is practicable. 
He is to take care that there is a free passage m the bilges, fore and 
aft, for water, and that those places where, from the trim of the ship, 
a lodgment may occur, be bailed and swabbed out frequently. In 
steam vessels, especially, he is to take care that every possible means 
be taken for the free circulation of air ; that the bilges be frequently 
cleansed and whitewashed, and that all offensive matter be removed 
from the limbers. The man-hole plates of the coal-bunkers should 
be kept off during the day, whenever the state of the weather will 
permit. 

942.. He shall cause the bedding and clothing of the crew to be 
inspected by the officers of divisions once a month, and the bedding 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 141 

Preservation of Health of Crew. 

and clothing aired and cleansed once a fortnight; when the weather 
will permit. 

943.. Whenever it shall be deemed necessary, upon the report of 
the Medical Officer, to destroy the clothing, or other personal effects 
of officers or men, to prevent the spread of disease, the Command- 
ing Officer will direct a survey to be held on the articles to be de- 
stroyed, and the report of survey, approved by him, will be trans- 
mitted to the Department, and will contain a descriptive list of the 
articles, with an estimate of their value. 

944 . . He shall not allow men to sleep abont the deck in situations 
where they will be exposed to night dews or rains, to sleep in wet 
clothes or bedding, or to take them below the gun-deck, when it 
can be avoided. 

945 . . He shall cause the crew to bathe or wash themselves fre- 
quently, and when they are washing decks or scrubbing clothes or 
hammocks, he will direct that they take off their shoes and stock- 
ings and roll up their trowsers, unless the temperature of the water 
or air should be such as not to justify it. 

946.. He shall pay great attention to the suitable clothing of the 
men, obliging them to make such changes as, in the opinion of the 
Medical Officers and himself, will be most conducive to health, ac- 
cording to the changes of climate to which they may be subjected. 

94 7.. He shall take care that the boats' crews have their break- 
fasts before leaving the vessel, and their other meals at the usual 
times, except when special duties prevent. 

948 . . He shall not allow the boats to be away from the ship after 
sunset, without his special permission. 

949. -He shall prevent all unnecessary exposure of those under 
his command. 

950.. He shall prevent the introduction on board and use of im- 
proper fruits or of other articles which may endanger the health of 
the crew. 

951.. Before water is received on board to be placed in the tanks 
or for present use, he will cause it to be tested by the senior Medical 
Officer, and will not permit any to be drunk which is impure. 

952.. Unless absolutely indispensable, the men are not to be 
placed on a daily allowance of water of less than one gallon. 

953.. When in port, he may cause fresh meat and vegetables to 



142 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Stores and Outfits. 

be issued to the crew, not exceeding four days in the week, unless 
the Surgeon may recommend more frequent issue as necessary to 
their health. 

95 4.. When men are sent to the hospital they are to be accom- 
panied by a Medical Officer, with a statement of the case, who is to 
see that the clothing and bedding of the men are carefully delivered 
to the proper officer of the hospital, with a complete list of the 
same. 

955 . .Whenever sick or wounded men are sent from one vessel to 
another, to be, on the arrival of the latter at her destined port, trans- 
ferred to a naval hospital, the Commanding Officer of the former 
will take especial care to make every necessary arrangement in his 
power for having them properly attended to while on board the 
vessel to which they are sent, and also for their being properly 
placed in the hospital on her arrival. If necessary, to insure 
such attention, a suitable person will be sent in charge of them. 
Unless for urgent reasons, such sick or wounded men will be sent 
only in store or supply vessels, or other vessels of the Navy. 

956 ..Men who may be sent to a hospital from a vessel in com- 
mission lying in the port where the hospital is located, are to be 
transferred to the receiving ship. 

9 5 7.. The life-buoys are to be always ready to be dropped, and at 
sea, and in strong tide-ways in port, shall have men stationed by them. 
They shall be examined every evening by the gunner, and their 
condition reported to the Executive Officer. The quarter boats are 
to be kept in condition to be immediately lowered, with a crew for 
each in each watch, in charge of a Petty Officer. 

958.. The lives of the men shall not be exposed by setting them 
to do unnecessary work outside the ship at sea, or in strong tide- 
ways. When necessary to employ them outside of the vessel every 
precaution shall be taken to rescue them in case any should fall 
overboard. 

ARTICLE XII. 

Stores and Outfits. 

559 ..The Commander of a vessel, when she is first equipped, 
shall be furnished by the Commandant of the yard with inventories 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 143 

Stoi*es and Outfits. 

of all the articles belonging to the different departments ; and he is 
thereafter to canse accurate accounts to be kept of all expenses in- 
curred for the vessel in the different departments, and shall make 
quarterly returns to the Commander of the division, squadron, or 
fleet, embracing a complete abstract of the expenditure of stores in 
the Master's, Boatswain's, Gunner's, Carpenter's, and Sailmaker's 
departments, which the latter will investigate and forward to the 
Bureaus to which they belong, with his remarks thereon. 

960 . . He shall examine all the returns of expenditures, all requisi- 
tions for supplies, all accounts rendered against the vessel, and, on 
being satisfied of their correctness, shall approve the same. 

961.. In making or approving requisitions for stores of any kind, 
he will, unless otherwise specially authorized, only require or ap- 
prove for the articles which may be necessary to complete such 
quantities as are or may be established as the allowance for the 
vessel or specially authorized, and the requisition must state that 
it is so made. 

962. -He shall use the utmost economy and care in everything 
which relates to the expenses of the vessel or the public service, and 
shall require from all those under his command a rigid compliance 
with the regulations for the receipt, conversion, and expenditure of 
stores of every description. 

9 63 ..When a vessel is ordered to be placed in ordinary, he shall, 
unless otherwise directed, after a survey shall be made upon the 
different articles, cause all the stores to be tallied, and properly 
marked and safely delivered to the proper officers of the navy yard. 

964.. Should a cable be slipped or parted, the Commander of the 
vessel, or, if he cannot, the senior officer present, shall use every 
exertion possible to recover it; but should neither have an oppor- 
tunity so to do, then information of the fact must at once be for- 
warded to the Navy Department, or to the nearest public agent of 
the United States, whichever course may best lead to a prompt re- 
covery. 

965.. When the ship is paid off or placed in ordinary he shall re- 
quire from the Officers and Yeomen charged with stores an abstract 
statement of the receipts and expenditures of stores during each 
fiscal year, and the total quantity during the cruise, and shall, un- 
der this abstract, enter the quantities remaining on hand, as shown 



144 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Apartments and Messes. 

by the general abstract expense book. If the remaining stores shall 
be landed, or can be surveyed before he leaves the ship, the quanti- 
ties actually landed, or found to be on hand by survey, shall also 
be stated under the quantities, as shown by the abstract expense 
book; and if any differences shall be found to exist, he shall have 
inquiry made as to the cause, and note the result upon the report, 
and forward the same to the Navy Department. If the Commander 
should be detached, and the ship delivered over before the stores 
are landed or surveyed, he will sign and transmit to the Coinmarid- 
ing Officer of the navy yard the required abstract of receipts and 
expenditures during the cruise, and the quantities on hand, as 
shown by the expense books. 

ARTICLE XIII. 
Apartments and Messes. 

9 66 -.Apartments to be occupied by officers of different grades 
will be arranged on such decks of a vessel of such size and in such 
way as the Navy Nepartment may direct ; and the officers of a vessel 
are to mess in the apartments provided for them for the purpose, 
and none are to be permitted to mess elsewhere on board, excej)t as 
hereafter provided for ; nor shall separate messes be formed in the 
same apartment. Cabin officers in ships with two cabins ; if they 
prefer it, may form one mess. A Commander-in-Chief may have his 
Chief-of- Staff and Secretary, or either of them, in his mess, and a 
Commanding Officer may have his clerk ; but in such cases those 
officers shall be accommodated permanently in the cabin, and shall 
not occupy the apartments provided for them elsewhere on board. 

967. .A Commander-in-Chief, a Commander of a squadron or divi- 
sion, a Commodore, a Commanding Officer of the vessel, a Chief-of- 
Staff, or any Captain or Commander doing duty on board, is to be 
regarded as a cabin officer, and as entitled to mess therein, and also 
to be accommodated in other respects agreeably to these instructions. 

968 ..Officers as passengers are to mess with those with whom 
they are associated as to the occupation of apartments ; but no such 
officer is to be entitled to the accommodation of a state-room to the 
exclusion of any officer regularly attached to the vessel who is en- 
titled to such accommodation. 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 145 

Apartments and Messes. 

969 . . The Commander-in-Chief or Commanding Officer of a squad- 
ron or division, when embarked, shall be entitled, where there are 
two cabins on different decks, to select one of them as the apart- 
ment to be occupied by himself ; and the other is to be occupied by 
the Commanding Officer of the vessel, Chief-of- Staff, and such pas- 
sengers as are cabin officers. 

970 . . The Commanding Officer of a vessel, where there is no Com- 
mander-in-Chief or Commanding Officer of a squadron or division 
embarked on board, and where there are two cabins on different 
decks, shall be entitled to select one of them as the apartment to be 
occupied by himself; and where there is but one cabin provided, he 
is to occupy it. 

9 71.. In case of there being but one cabin to a vessel having 
on board a Commander-in-Chief, or Commander of a division or 
squadron, the officer commanding her shall be entitled to one-third 
of the space allotted for the cabin apartment, divided off by a fore 
and aft bulk-head, provided such space is sufficient for the purpose, 
without interfering with efficiency and comfort. 

9 72.. When one of the two cabins on different decks of a vessel 
is vacant, and, in the judgment of her Commanding Officer, not re- 
quired for other public purposes, he may permit it to be occupied 
by the officers as a withdrawing room, but no one but the Executive 
Officer is to sleep there. 

9 73.. A Chief-of-Staff, or principal aid to a Commander-in-Chief 
of a fleet or squadron, serving on board a vessel provided with two 
cabins on different decks, if he does not mess with the Commander- 
in-Chief, is to mess with her Commanding Officer, and be otherwise 
accommodated in the same cabin in which they are to mess. If 
there be two state-rooms in it, said Commanding Officer is to have 
the first choice, and the Chief-of-Staff the second choice with regard 
to them. And in any arrangement of cabin accommodations whereby 
there may be two state-rooms in the apartment assigned to the 
Commanding Officer of the vessel, the Chief-of-Staff shall be entitled 
to occupy one of them. 

974. .When no other arrangement is prescribed or feasible, the 
Commander-in-Chief, Commanding Officer of the vessel, and Chief- 
of-Staff are to occupy the cabin jointly, the choice of accommoda- 
tions to be made in the order in which they are here mentioned. 
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146 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Apartments and Messes. 

975 . . The state-rooms opening into the wardroom country will be 
occupied, on the starboard side, by all the Line Officers borne upon 
the books, according to rank, commencing with the forward room. 

976. .The state-rooms opening into the wardroom country will be 
occupied, on the port side, as follows : The forward room shall be 
occupied by the Senior Engineer in charge of the engines, and if 
there be no such officer on board, then by the Paymaster, Passed 
Assistant Paymaster, or Assistant Paymaster in charge of the Pay 
Department ; the next room by the Surgeon, or Assistant in charge 
of the Medical Department ; the next room by the Senior Marine 
Officer in charge of the guard ; and all the rooms abaft this by other 
Wardroom Officers not of the line, in the order of their rank. In 
flag-ships, the Engineer, Paymaster, and Surgeon, in charge of their 
respective departments, shall occupy rooms conformable to the 
above rule, and all other officers entitled to rooms on the port side r 
according to their rank. All other rooms shall be occupied as the 
Commander may direct. 

9 7 7.. In all vessels of the first-class, and in those of the second- 
class having a covered gun-deck, the Boatswain and Gunner will 
each have a separate room on the starboard side, forward of the 
steerage, and the Carpenter and Sailmaker will also each have a 
separate room on the port side ; but in vessels below the above the 
Boatswain and Gunner will occupy one room jointly, fitted with 
two berths, on the starboard side, and the Carpenter and Sailmaker 
a similar room on the port side. 

978.. State-rooms in the cock-pit, or on the orlop or berth deck 
of a vessel, remaining vacant, are to be assigned by the Command- 
ing Officer to such officers entitled to the accommodation of rooms 
as have not been provided with them, agreeably to their rank or 
seniority, giving preference in all cases to the watch officers in the 
regular order of rank. 

979. -In all messes of officers, except Engineers, the Senior Line 
Officer shall preside, and the Senior Line Officer present will be held 
responsible for the order and decorum of the mess. In messes of 
Engineers the senior one shall preside, and the senior one present 
will be held responsible for the order and decorum of the mess. 

980.. Petty Officers will be messed by themselves, and shall not 
be required to perform the duty of mess cooks. 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 147 

Naval Transports. 

981.. The boys will be distributed among the messes, but shall 
be berthed by themselves, under the charge of the schoolmaster, or 
one of the Petty Officers. 

ARTICLE XIV. 
Xaval Transports. 

982 . .Unless otherwise specially directed by the President, officers 
of the Army, when ordered to take passage in vessels of war, shall, 
if of the rank of General Officers, live with the Commander of the 
fleet or squadron, if one is embarked in the same vessel ; otherwise, 
such General Officers, and all Field Officers by commission, in their 
respective corjjs or regiments, shall live in the apartments of the 
Captain or Commanding Officer of such vessel ; and all other officers 
of regiments or corps, with the Lieutenants or Wardroom Officers 
of the Navy, or with those having the same designation, or who 
perform similar duties but without interfering with the sleeping 
apartments of the Naval Officers. 

983.. When officers of the Army are embarked with troops, in a 
transport or troop-ship, commanded and officered by Naval Officers, 
the latter shall occupy the same apartments which they usually 
occupy when employed on other service, and separate accommoda- 
tions shall be provided for the special use of the Officers of the Army 
and those under their command. 

984.. Officers of the Army embarked with troops in Navy trans- 
ports, or in troop-ships, shall mess together, and separately from 
the Officers of the Navy, unless otherwise mutually agreed upon 
with the sanction of the Commanding Officer of the vessel and of 
the troops. 

985.. When any part of the Army, Volunteers, or Militia, of the 
United States shall be embarked in any vessel of the Navy for duty 
therein, they shall, until they are regularly detached therefrom, be 
subject to the laws for the government of the Navy, and to the reg- 
ulations of police for the vessel, in the same manner and to the 
same extent as marines when they form a part of the complement 
of a vessel. 

986 . . Whenever any part of the Army, Volunteers, or Militia, of 



148 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Convoys. 

the United States shall be embarked on board any vessel of the 
Navy for transportation only, they shall not be subject to the laws 
and regulations for the government of the Navy, but to the laws for 
the government of the Army ; but they shall, nevertheless, be sub- 
ject and conform to the internal regulations of the vessel in which 
they may be embarked, upon pain of confinement by the Commander 
of such vessel while on board, and of such punishment as an Army 
court-martial may direct, after they shall have been landed. 

98 7.. No Army courts-martial shall be held on board any vessel 
in the Navy when in commission, nor shall Army, Volunteer, or 
Militia Officers order any public punishment or confinement in irons 
to be inflicted on board such vessel, without the previous approval 
of the Commanding Officer of such vessel. 

ARTICLE XV. 
Convoys. 

988. -A Commanding Officer affording convoy to merchant ves- 
sels is to arrange with their masters such signals as will enable him 
to regulate movements, and them to communicate wants ; and he 
will give them in writing, or in print, such directions for their gov- 
ernment as may be necessary for their protection. Should it be ex- 
pedient to provide them with secret instructions or signals, he will 
enjoin upon each master not to inform any person of the same, and 
not to allow an enemy, in the event of capture, to become possessed 
of the same. 

989 . . He shall take a list of the names of the vessels under his 
convoy, specifying their rig, tonnage, and number of men, the places 
to which they belong and are bound, the date of their joining, and 
the names of their masters, owners, and supercargoes, a copy of 
which he is to transmit to the Secretary of the Navy ; and on his 
arrival in port he is to send another list to the Secretary of the 
Navy, setting forth the names, &c, of the vessels that arrived with 
him, and of those that did not so arrive, mentioning, with regard to 
the latter, the time and supposed cause of their separation. 

990. .Before taking under his convoy a vessel bound to a bellige- 
rent port he shall require satisfactory proof that there are no articles 
of contraband on board ; and, without such proof, he is not to take 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 149 

Convoys. 

her under his convoy, or afford her protection en route against a 
belligerent claim, unless specially directed. 

991 ..An officer charged with a convoy must he very vigilant in 
guarding against attack or surprise, and if attacked he must defend 
it to the last extremity. He must never weaken the convoying 
force by detaching a part of it to go in chase beyond signal dis- 
tance, nor must he himself separate from the convoy, unless such 
course would be the means of preserving it from an enemy. 

992.. He shall adopt all possible measures to prevent the separa- 
tion of the convoy, and may direct such vessels to repeat his signals 
as he may deem proper. If practicable, he shall appoint a place of 
rendezvous in case of separation. 

993 . .Each vessel of the convoy should be notified of the place of 
rendezvous, so as to know how to steer, in case of being separated 
from the rest of the squadron. 

994.. He will be particularly careful at night to see that the 
vessels acting as outposts permit no strange sail to get among the 
vessels of the convoy and cut them out. 

995.. He will make report to the Secretary of the Navy of the 
name of any vessel, and of the master, who shall disobey the in- 
structions or signals for the convoy, or leave the convoy without 
permission, or otherwise misbehave, stating the particulars of his 
misconduct, so that insurance offices may be informed of the same. 

996.. Whenever the master of any vessel under convoy shall 
wilfully or repeatedly neglect or refuse to conform to the instruc- 
tions or signals of the Commanding Officer of tlie convoying force, 
the said commanding Officer may refuse him any further protection, 
and be released from any further responsibility for the safety of the 
vessel. 

997. -When different convoys shall sail at the same time, or shall 
meet at sea, they shall sail together as long as their course shall be 
in the same direction ; but the different convoys shall be kept as 
distinct from each other as circumstances will allow. 

998.. While two convoys continue together, the Senior Officer 
commands the whole ; and the vessels of the convoying forces will 
wear different distinguishing flags, for the information of the re- 
spective convoys. 

999.. The Commanding Officer is enjoined not to receive, or 



150 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Prizes, or Vessels Seized as such, and Prisoners, 

suffer any person under his authority to receive, under any pretense, 
any fee, reward, or gratuity, from any owner or master, or other per- 
son, for the protection afforded. 

1000.. Vessels of war of the United States are not to take under 
their convoy the vessels of any power at war with another with 
which the United States is at peace, nor the vessels of a neutral 
power, unless specially ordered so to do, or some very particular 
circumstances should occur to render it expedient and proper, of 
which they are to advise the Navy Department at the earliest pos- 
sible moment. 

1001. -The Commanding Officer of a vessel of the Navy, about to 
sail from a foreign port during war, or when it is probable that war 
will soon occur, is, if the nature of the orders under which he is act- 
ing will permit, to give timely information to the merchant vessels 
of the United States lying therein of the day of his intended depart- 
ure, and to take under his protection all such bound the same way 
as may be desirous and ready to accompany him ; and he is also to 
take under his protection any other vessels of the United States 
that he may fall in with on the passage, which may desire it, and 
conduct them in safety as far as his course and theirs are the same. 

1002 . .No lights are to be carried at night by either the public or 
private vessels of a convoy, except by the authority of the officer 
who may command it. If he directs any one or more of these vessels 
to carry one or more of them, they are to do so. 

1003.. The Commanding Officer of a convoy is not to permit the 
vessels under his protection to be searched or detained by any bel- 
ligerent or other cruiser. 

ARTICLE XVI. 
Prizes, or Vessels Seized as suen, and Prisoners. 

1004 ..The attention of Commanding Officers of the Navy is par- 
ticularly called to the laws in relation to captured vessels. 

1005 . . When a vessel shall be seized as a prize, it shall be the 
duty of the Commander of the vessel making the capture to cause 
all the hatches and passages leading to the cargo to be secured and 
sealed, except such as may be indispensably necessary for the use of 



NAYY OF THE UNITED STATES. 151 

Prizes, or Vessels Seized as such, and Prisoners. 

the persons on board and for the management of the vessel. The 
log-book, and all papers relating to the vessel and cargo, shall also 
be sealed up, and placed in charge of the prize-master, for delivery 
with the vessel and cargo. 

1006 . . Shonld it be absolutely necessary to take out of a vessel 
seized as a prize any property, either for its better preservation or 
for the nse of vessels or armed forces of the United States, a correct 
inventory, and also a careful appraisement of its value, by suitable 
officers, qualified to judge, shall be made. This inventory and ap- 
praisement shall be made in duplicate, one part of which shall be 
transmitted to the Secretary of the Navy and the other to the judge 
or United States attorney of the district to which the prize may be 
sent. 

1007. -If. from unavoidable circumstances, it should become 
necessary to sell any portion of the captured property, a full report 
of the facts shall be made to the United States attorney or judge of 
the district into which the prize is sent, and any proceeds of sale 
shall be held subject to the order of the said judge. 

1008.. The prize-master will vigilantly guard the captured or 
seized property intrusted to his care from spoliation and theft, such 
offenses leading to a forfeiture of the prize-money, and such other 
punishment as a prize-court may inflict, both of the crew and the 
prize-master. 

1009 . . The Commanding Officer of any vessel of the Navy making 
a capture shall report to the Navy Department and to the judge of 
the court to which the prize is sent all the material facts attending 
it, Including the names of all vessels within signal distance at the 
time, together with all the circumstances of their position, so far as 
he may be cognizant of them. 

1010.. The Commanding Officers of all vessels claiming to share 
in a prize shall cause the prize-list, which they are required by law 
to transmit to the Navy Department, to exhibit not only the name 
and rank, or rating, but also the rate of annual or monthly pay of 
each person borne on the books at the time of the capture to which 
the list refers. They shall also, in all cases, forward a statement of 
their claims, with the grounds upon which they are based, to the 
Department, and to the judge of the district to which the prize was 
sent. 



152 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Prises, or Vessels Seized as such, and Prisoners. 

1011 . . The law requires that the master of the captured or seized 
vessel shall be seut in, his evidence being considered primary ; and 
as many of the officers and crew of the captured or seized vessel as 
can properly be taken care of should be sent forward, in custody of 
the prize-master, who will report, immediately on his arrival, to 
the United States attorney, as well as to the Department. The 
mate and supercargo, next to the master, are the most important 
witnesses before a prize court, and should always be sent with the 
captured or seized vessel, or carried into the port to which she may 
be sent for adjudication, without delay. 

1012 . . Although in time of war the Commander of a vessel is to 
exercise constant vigilance to prevent supplies of arms, munitions, 
and contraband articles being conveyed to the enemy, yet under no 
circumstances is he to seize any vessel within the waters of a friendly 
nation. 

1013 . . A Commanding Officer in time of war is to diligently exer- 
cise the right of visitation and search on all suspected vessels other 
than neutral men of war, yet in no case is he authorized to chase 
and fire at a vessel without showing any colors and giving her the 
customary preliminary notice of a desire to speak and visit her; 
i. 6., first, a blank cartridge shall be fired ; second, a shotted gun, 
aimed so as not to hit ; third, a shot fired at the vessel ; nor is he to 
chase or fire at any such vessel or commit acts of hostility or of au- 
thority within a marine league of any foreign country with which 
we are at peace. 

1014 . . When such a visit shall be made, the vessel, if neutral, is 
not then to be seized without a search carefully made, so far as to 
render it reasonable to believe that she is engaged in carrying con- 
traband of war for or to the enemy, and to his ports, directly or in- 
directly, or unless she is attempting to violate a blockade established 
by the United States. If, after visitation and search, it shall appear 
to the satisfaction of the Commanding Officer that the vessel is in 
good faith and without contraband, actually bound and passing 
from one friendly or neutral point to another, and not bound or pro- 
ceeding to or from a port in the possession of the enemy, then she 
cannot be lawfully seized. It shall be the duty of the officer making 
the search to indorse upon the ship's register or license the fact of 
the visit, the nature of the search, by what vessel made, the name 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 153 

Prizes, or Vessels Seized as such, and Prisoners. 

of her Cormnander, the latitude and longitude, the time of deten- 
tion, and when released. 

1015.. In order to avoid difficulty and error in relation to papers 
found on hoard a neutral vessel that may have heen seized, the 
Commanding Officer will take care that official seals, or fastenings 
of foreign authorities, are, in no case, nor on any pretext, to be 
broken, or parcels covered by them read by any naval authorities ; 
but all bags or other things covering such parcels, and duly sealed 
or fastened by foreign authorities, will be remitted to the prize 
court. 

1016 . . If information should be received by a Commanding Officer 
that a suspicious vessel has come, or intends to come, within the 
limits of his prescribed cruising ground, he will not be authorized 
to depart from the usual practice in regard to visitation, search, or 
capture, but shall, in the event of falling in with her, proceed in all 
respects as provided for in the preceding paragraphs. 

1017.. The officers and crew of a neutral vessel seized are not to 
be confined except by detention on board, unless by their own con" 
duct they should render further restraint necessary. Their j)ersoual 
property is to be respected, and a full and proper allowance of pro- 
visions is to be distributed to them. If any cruelty or unnecessary 
force is used toward such crew a prize court will decree damages to 
the injured parties. 

1018. .A neutral vessel seized is to wear the flag of her own coun- 
try until she is adjudged to be a lawful prize by a competent court. 
The flag of the United States, however, may be exhibited at the 
fore, when necessary, to indicate that she is, for the time, in the 
possession of officers of the United States. 

1019.. The form of a letter of instructions to be given to prize- 
masters, to be observed by Commanding Officers, will be found in 
the Appendix, No. 15. 

1020 . . The Navigator, or other officer, or prize-master, in whose 
charge instruments are placed, or the prize-master to whom arms 
are intrusted, will be held strictly accountable for their condition, 
and in case of loss or damage by neglect, or any other cause not 
satisfactorily explained, the value will be charged to his account. 
The officer appointing a prize-master will require him to give a re- 
ceipt in duplicate for the instruments and arms with which he may 



154 REGULATIONS FOU THE 

Paroling, 

be furnished, one of the same to be forwarded to the Commanding 
Officer of the station to which the prize vessel is bound, and the 
other to be retained by such appointing officer ; and in case of any 
deficiency in the delivery of these instruments and arms, or of any 
palpable abuse, the Commanding Officer of the station will at once 
have the matter investigated, and report the result to the Navy 
Department. 

1021.. Prisoners of war are to be treated with humanity; their 
personal property shall be carefully protected ; they shall have a 
proper allowance of provisions, and every comfort of air and exer- 
cise which circumstances admit of. Every precaution must be 
taken to prevent any hostile attempt on their part, and, if necessary 
or expedient, they may be ironed or closely confined. If officers 
give their parole not to attempt any hostile act on board the vessel, 
and to conform to such requirements as the Commanding Officer 
may consider necessary, they may be permitted such privileges of 
quarters and of the deck as he may deem proper. 

1022.. If any vessel shall be taken acting as a vessel of war, 
or a privateer, without having a proper commission so to act, the 
officers and crew shall be considered as pirates, and treated accord- 
ingly. 

1023.. When a vessel is detailed to act in the suppression of the 
slave-trade, her Commanding Officer, if acting singly, will be fur- 
nished by the Department with the necessary instructions, slave- 
trade papers, &c, but if acting otherwise, by the Commander-in- 
Chief of the squadron. 

AETICLE XVII. 

Paroling 1 and Flag's of Truce. 

Section 1. — Paroling. 

102 4.. Paroling must always take place by the interchange of 
signed duplicates of a written document, in which the names and 
rank of the persons paroled are correctly and distinctly stated. Any 
one who intentionally mistakes his rank forfeits the benefit of his 
parole, and is liable to punishment. 

1025.. None but Commissioned Officers can give the parole for 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 155 

Paroling. 

themselves and their command, and no inferior officer can give a 
parole without the authority of his superior, if within reach. 

1026.. No paroling of entire bodies of men after a battle or cap- 
ture, and no dismissal of large numbers of prisoners with a general 
declaration that they are paroled, is permitted, or will be considered 
of any value. 

102 7.. An officer who shall give a parole for himself or his 
command, without referring to his superior, when it is in his 
power to do so, will be considered as giving " aid and comfort to 
the enemy," and may be considered as a deserter, and be punished 
accordingly. 

1028. -For the officer the pledging of his parole is an individual 
act, and no wholesale paroling by an officer for a number of inferiors 
in rank, in violation of Paragraph No. 1026, is permitted, or will be 
considered valid. 

1029 ..No person belonging to the Navy or Marine Corps can 
give his parole except through a Commissioned Officer. Individual 
paroles not given through an officer are not only void but make the 
individuals giving them amenable to punishment as deserters. The 
only admissible excei^tion is when individuals, properly separated 
from their commanders, have suffered long confinement without the 
possibility of being paroled through an officer. 

1030.. No prisoner of war can be forced by the hostile govern- 
ment to pledge his parole, and any threats or ill treatment to force 
the giving of the parole is contrary to the law of war. 

1031.. No prisoner of war can enter into engagements inconsist- 
ent with his character and duties as a citizen or subject of his state. 
He can only bind himself not to bear arms against his captor for a 
limited period, or until he is exchanged, and this only with the 
stipulated or implied consent of his own government. If the en- 
gagement which he makes is not approved by his government, he is 
bound to return and surrender himself as a prisoner of war. » His 
own government cannot, at the same time, disown his engagement 
and refuse his return as a prisoner. 

1032 . .No one can pledge his parole that he will never bear arms 
against the government of his captors, nor that he will not bear 
arms against any other enemy of his government not at the time 
the ally of his captors. Such agreements have reference only to 



156 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Flags of Truce. 

the existing enemy and bis existing allies, and the existing war, 
and not to futnre belligerents. 

1033.. While the pledging of the military parole is a voluntary 
act of the individual, the capturing power is not obliged to grant it. 

1034. .Paroles not authorized by the common law of war are not 
valid until approved by the government of the individual so pledg- 
ing his parole. 

1035 . . The pledging of any unauthorized military parole is a mili- 
tary offense, punishable under the common law of war. 

Section 2. — Flags of Truce. 

1036. .A flag of truce is, in its nature, of a sacred character, and 
is ever to be so regarded by all persons in the Navy of the United 
States. 

103 7.. To use it to obtain surreptitiously naval knowledge or 
information against the interests or wishes of an enemy, is to abuse 
it, and to subject the bearer of it to the punishment of a spy. 

1038. .The Senior Officer present is alone authorized to dispatch, 
or to admit communication with, a flag of truce; but a vessel in a 
position to discover the approach of a flag of truce earlier than the 
rest, is, whenever one appears, to communicate promptly the fact 
by signal. 

1039.. A flag of truce is always to be admitted with great cir- 
cumspection, and should never be allowed to approach so as to be a 
means of acquiring useful information. The firing of a gun, with a 
blank charge, by the flag or Senior Officer's ship, is generally under- 
stood as a warning to a flag of truce not to approach any nearer. 

1040 '..Unnecessary frequency in the use of a flag of truce is to 
be carefully avoided. 

1041.. A flag of truce on the water should be met at a suitable 
distance off, or at the point previously agreed upon, by a boat or 
vessel from the Senior Officer's ship, in charge of a commissioned 
and discreet officer, and having a white flag kept plainly displayed 
forward from the time of leaving until that of return. 

1042. .And in dispatching a flag of truce the same precaution as 
to a suitable officer to be placed in charge, and as to keeping the 
white flag displayed, is to be observed. 



NAYY OF THE UNITED STATES. 157 

Quarantine. 

1043. -Whenever the white flag is used the ensign is also to be 
exhibited. 

1044.. No flag of trucecan insist on being admitted; and as a 
rare exception only should a flag of truce be admitted during an 
engagement. If then admitted, it is no breach of faith to retain it. 
Firing is not necessarily to cease at the appearance of a flag of truce 
in battle, and if any one connected with it be killed, no complaint 
can be made. If, however, the white flag be exhibited evidently as 
a token of submission, then, of course, firing should cease. 

1045. -An attacking force should avoid firing on hospitals when- 
ever they are designated by flags or other symbols distinctly under- 
stood ; but it is an act of bad faith, amounting to infamy, to hoist 
the hospital protective flag over any other building than a hospital, 
unless the attacking force should request or consent that it might 
be used in order to spare edifices dedicated to science or literature, 
or containing works of art. 

AETICLE XVIII. 
Quarantine. 

1046 ..Commanding Officers in going into port, whether foreign 
or domestic, are to comply strictly with all its regulations regardin g 
quarantine. 

1047. -In boarding vessels just arrived care is to be taken that 
it is not done in violation of the rules of the port, and, in case 
they are subject to quarantine, the Boarding Officer is to obtain the 
information he desires without going along side of them ; and in 
boarding vessels at sea care is to be observed not to do so, unless 
absolutely indispensable, if there be any cases of an infectious dis- 
ease among the crews, or if they come from places without a clean 
bill of health, or be otherwise liable to be subjected to quarantine. 
No concealment is to be countenanced with regard to anything 
that may have been done by a vessel of the Navy subjecting her to 
quarantine. 

1048 . . If a vessel of the Navy should arrive in any port with an 
infectious disease among her crew, or if a disease of the sort should 
break out among her crew while lying in port, her Commanding 



158 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Transfers. 

Officer is to have the quarantine flag hoisted, and to prevent all 
communication at all liable to engender the disease elsewhere, until 
the proper authorities of the place may extend to her the privilege 
of pratique. To prevent the spreading of an epidemic on board a 
vessel of the Navy, the Commanding Officer is authorized to ar- 
range with the authorities of the port for the care and treatment of 
the invalids, either on shore or on board a hulk in the harbor. 

1049 . . If a vessel of the Navy should be at sea in company with 
other vessels, and an infectious disease should exist or appear on 
board of her, the Commanding Officer is to keep her quarantine flag 
exhibited until it ceases, and to do all in his power to prevent its 
dissemination. 

1050. . Commanding Officers, whether liable to quarantine or not, 
are, on arriving in the waters of a port, to extend every facility to 
health-boats, in making their visits, and to afford all the informa- 
tion they may require. If the vessel be under way she is to heave 
to, if necessary, on their approach. 

ARTICLE XIX. 
Transfers, Discharges, and Desertions. 

Section 1. — Transfers. 

1051.. No Commander of a vessel of the Navy is ever to transfer 
any person belonging to his vessel to any other vessel or station, 
unless specially authorized by competent authority. The Com- 
manding Officer of a fleet or squadron may authorize transfers from 
one vessel to another under his command, when on a foreign sta- 
tion, and when, in his judgment, the good of the public service 
shall render it expedient or necessary. 

1052 ..An officer transferred from a vessel, navy yard, or station, 
to any other vessel, navy yard, or station, or to any prize, is to be 
furnished with his account at the time, signed by the Commanding 
Officer and Paymaster of the vessel, navy yard, or station from 
which he goes, specifying his rank, the sums paid, and the balance 
due. 

1053 . . When any person other than an officer shall be transferred 
from one vessel, navy yard, or station, to any other vessel, navy 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 159 

Discharges. 

yard, or station, or to any prize or hospital, the Commanding Officer 
of the vessel, navy yard, or station from which he goes shall take 
care that he is accompanied by his account, signed by himself and 
the Paymaster, specifying the date of his entry, the period and term 
of service, the sums paid, the balance due, and the quality in which 
he was rated ; and also by a complete descriptive transcript, and 
clothes list, and whether or not he is entitled to an honorable dis- 
charge. 

1054 -. Officers having men sent to them without their accounts 
will report immediately to the Secretary of the Navy the names and 
rates of such men, and all other information which can be obtained, 
and which may be necessary to enable the Department to ascertain 
the name of the Officer who has been guilty of this violation of law. 

Section 2. — Discharges. 

1055 . . Persons enlisted for the naval service, and serving on board 
vessels within the United States, may be discharged by the writ- 
ten order of the Commanding Officer of a vessel acting singly, of a 
squadron, or of a station, for either of the following reasons, but not 
otherwise, except by the authority of the Department : Expiration 
of service, sentence of a general or summary court-martial, or unfit" 
ness for service from causes ascertained by survey to have existed 
prior to enlistment. 

1056. -Persons claiming to be legally entitled to their discharge, 
on the score of being minors or aliens, must apply to the courts 
having cognizance of such cases. 

1057 . .No person enlisted for the naval service shall be discharged 
while absent from the United States, except by order of the Secre- 
tary of the Navy, or by the sentence of a general court-martial : 
Provided, however, that upon the expiration of the term of his en- 
listment, any person whose detention on board may not " be very 
essential to the public interests" may be discharged upon his own 
request in writing, by order of the Commander-in-Chief or of the 
senior officer present ; and the fact that the request was so made 
shall be stated on the face of the discharge. Whenever a discharge 
shall be given for any of the reasons above mentioned, a report of 
all the circumstances shall be made to the Navy Department, and 



160 REGULATIONS FOE, THE 

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Honorable Discharges. 

information shall be given to the nearest Consnl of the United States, 
that he may regulate his conduct toward the person so discharged, 
with a full knowledge of the facts. 

1058. -Every discharge paper, whether honorable or otherwise, 
issued to a person of the Navy, must contain upon its face or back 
(see forms 22 and 23) a full and complete descriptive list of the indi- 
vidual to whom it is given. 

1059 . .Petty officers appointed by the Commanding Officer, or with 
his approval, shall not be discharged before the expiration of the 
term for which they agreed to serve, except by sentence of a court- 
martial, by order of superior authority, or for good and sufficient 
reasons, of which the Commanding Officer will be the judge. The 
latter will never authorize such discharges for the purpose of avoid- 
ing a court-martial, nor unless he is satisfied that the public interests 
will not be injured thereby. 

1060 ..A Yeoman shall in no case be discharged during the con- 
tinuance of the cruise for which he engaged to serve, until his ac- 
counts shall have been examined and the stores under his charge 
accounted for. 

1061. .A Yeoman is not to be discharged at the exx>iration of a 
cruise until his accounts have been audited and approved by the 
Commandant of the yard, as required by the Ordnance and other 
instructions. If found correct, the Commandant of the yard will 
then give him a discharge ; but if not so found, that officer is at 
once to make to the Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting, or to the 
Bureau of Ordnance, as the case may require, a statement of de- 
ficiencies, covering their amounts, and of any circumstances which 
may have come to his knowledge attending them, for the decision 
of the Department. 

Section 3, — Honorable Discharges. 

1062 . . Commanding Officers of vessels will deliver to their suc- 
cessors a list of such three-years men as are entitled to honorable 
discharges, and when any such men are transferred to a hospital, to 
a station, to any other vessel, or to any other duty, such lists shall 
always accompany their transfer. Officers receiving men without 
such lists will immediately report the fact to the Bureau of Equip- 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 161 

Honorable Discharges. 

rnent and Recruiting, with, the name of the officer who transferred 
the men in violation of this regulation. 

1063 ..Commanding Officers, upon returning from a cruise, when 
directed to discharge the whole or any part of the crew, will furnish 
to those petty officers- and others of inferior rating, who enlisted for 
three years, and who, in their judgment, are, on being discharged, 
entitled to it as a testimonial of fidelity and obedience, an honor- 
able discharge, and forward immediately to the Secretary of the 
Navy returns of the names and descriptions of those to whom it has 
been given. 

10 6 4.. Blanks for the honorable discharges, and the returns in 
relation to them, will be furnished by the Bureau of Equipment and 
Recruiting, and great care is hereby enjoined as to the filling up of 
both completely and accurately. 

1065 ..When any petty officer or person of inferior rating, who, 
having received an honorable discharge, shall within three months 
from the date thereof present said discharge at any naval rendezvous, 
or aecount for its loss in a satisfactory manner, answer the descrip- 
tion it contains, and be found physically fit for the service, he may 
be re-enlisted for three years ; and upon his transfer to a receiving 
vessel, he will be entitled to three months' gratuitous pay, equal in 
amount to what he would have been entitled to receive if he had 
remained employed in actual service for three months, with the rate 
specified on the face of the honorable discharge. 

1066.. If the honorable discharge should have been lost, refer- 
ence can be made to the files of the Department for corroboration 
that the person presenting himself did receive an honorable dis- 
charge, and for a descriptive list of his person. 

1067. -The three months' pay to which a Petty Officer or per- 
son of inferior rating is entitled, who shall enlist for three years 
within three months after his honorable discharge, shall be con- 
sidered " honorable discharge money," and so denominated. It wil 
not, however, be paid in one sum at the time of re-enlistment, but 
shall be reserved for payment during the term of his re-enlistment, at 
such times and in such sums as the Commanding Officer may direct t 

1068. .No person discharged at his own request, or for his own 
convenience, before the expiration of his term of enlistment, shall be 
given an honorable discharge. 
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162 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Continuous Service Certificates. 

1069 . . When invalids are sent to the United States froni a foreign 
station, the Commanding Officer of the vessel to which they be- 
longed will transmit a list of their names to the Department, stating 
the general character of each, and designating such, as, in his opin- 
ion, are entitled to the honorable discharge, in order that the Com- 
mandant of the station at which they may arrive in the United 
States may be directed to grant the said discharge to those deserv- 
ing it. A duplicate of the list is to be sent also to the Commandant 
of the station where they are to arrive. 

Section 4. — Continuous Service Certificates. 

1070. .All enlisted men, except Officers' cooks and stewards, now 
serving in the Navy, who were under the age of thirty-five years at 
the date of their current enlistments, and all men under the said 
age who hereafter enlist in the naval service, except those who may 
be rated Officers' cooks and stewards, will receive, upon the expira- 
tion of their enlistments, if they shall so elect, Continuous Service 
Certificates, in lieu of the ordinary or honorable discharges hereto- 
fore issued. 

1071. .All persons holding Continuous Service Certificates will 
be entitled to receive for each continuous re-enlistment for three 
years, within three months from the date of their discharge, one 
dollar per month in addition to the pay prescribed for their several 
ratings. 

1072 ..Any person failing to re-enlist within three months from 
the date of his discharge from any enlistment, will cease to derive 
any advantages accruing from his previous continuous enlistments. 

1073 -.The Continuous Service Certificates will embrace all the 
advantages of honorable discharges in cases where persons are recom- 
mended for the same, and must always show, in the column for the 
purpose, whether or not the men are entitled to such discharges. 

1074 ..Commanding Officers are directed not to recommend for 
honorable discharge appointed men, nor Officers' cooks, stewards 
and mess boys, shipped for the cruise of the vessel. Men holding 
these rates will receive commendatory letters, if entitled to the 
same, from those under whose control they have acted, counter- 
signed by their respective Commanding Officers. 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 163 

Desertions. 

1075 . . At the expiration often years' service any disabled enlisted 
man who has not been discharged for misconduct, will be entitled 
to a pension, if a Board of Survey shall recommend such action in 
his case ; and after twenty years' service any enlisted man, disabled 
from sea service by reason of age or infirmity, who has not been dis- 
charged for misconduct, will be entitled to a j>ension equal to one- 
half the pay of his rating, when last discharged. 

1076 - -Any man holding a Continuous Service Certificate, who is 
distinguished for obedience, sobriety, and cleanliness, aud is also 
proficient in seamanship or gunnery, shall receive, upon the expira- 
tion of his enlistment, a good conduct badge : and after he shall 
have received three such badges, under consecutive re-enlistments, 
within three months from the dates of his discharges, he shall, if 
qualified, be enlisted as a Petty Officer, and hold a Petty Officers' 
rating during subsequent continuous re-enlistments ; and he shall 
not be reduced to a lower rating, except by sentence of a court- 
martial. 

1077. -As the Continuous Service Certificates are prepared at 
considerable expense to the Government, and are printed on parch- 
ment, each man receiving the same will be furnished with a box for 
its preservation ; and under no circumstances will a duplicate cer- 
tificate be issued. 

Section 5. — Desertions. 

1078 ..Desertion being an offense of the gravest character, every 
possible endeavor must be made by the officers of the Navy to check 
it, as well as absence without leave, or straggling, and to appre- 
hend jnonrptly all persons who may desert or so absent themselves. 
In each case descriptive lists, signed by the Commanding Officer, 
showing on their face the amount of reward offered, are to be dis- 
tributed among the police of the place, but not without the permis- 
sion of the local authorities. (Form No. 4.) 

1079. .A reward, not exceeding twenty dollars, maybe offered 
for the recovery of a deserter, aud a reward, not exceeding ten dol- 
lars, may be offered for the recovery of a straggler, but in neither 
case is it to be paid until the delinquent is actually delivered on 
board the vessel, or at the place on shore where he belongs, and 



164 REGULATIONS 'FOR THE 

Desertions. 

from which lie deserted or went without authority. If, however, 
the vessel should have departed from the port at which the offense 
occurred, then the delivery of the delinquent to the Commanding 
Naval Officer thereat is to be regarded as equivalent to his delivery 
on board of her. Any reward which may be paid for the apprehen- 
sion and delivery of a deserter or straggler is at once to be charged 
to his account. 

1080. .In addition to the reward above authorized to be paid for 
the apprehension and delivery of deserters and stragglers, there may 
be paid a reasonable amount to cover such expenses attending their 
t lodgment, subsistence, and traveling, as may appear to have been 
fairly incurred ; and this amount, entered separately, is also to be 
charged against them. No claim, however, for loss of time, or for 
subsistence, that may be made by any jjerson apprehending and de- 
livering a deserter or straggler, is to be entertained. 

1081 . . A reward for the apprehension of an officer is not to be 
offered unless specially authorized by the Navy Department, or, on 
a foreign station, by the Commander-in-Chief of a squadron. 

1082 . .Absence without leave, and with a manifest intention not 
to return, is always to be regarded as desertion. Absence without 
leave, coupled with a probability that the party does not intend to 
remain permanently away, is, at first, to be regarded as straggling, 
and, at the expiration of ten days, if the party still remains absent, 
as desertion. In either case, the Commanding Officer, on informing 
himself of the facts attending it, is, x>rimarily, to decide the point 
of intention, and to cause the party to be entered on the log and 
marked on the books of the Paymaster as above indicated. 

1083. .The wages due a deserter are to be regarded as forfeited 
to the United States ; or, if in debt to the government, the proceeds 
of his effects left on board are to be applied to liquidate it, and the 
balance, if any, is to be accounted for to the Fourth Auditor of the 
Treasury by the Paymaster. If not so in debt, the whole of said 
proceeds are to be so accounted for. 

1084. -Persons deserting from the naval service forfeit all claim 
to any balances, including prize-money, due to them at the time of 
desertion, unless sentenced to other punishment, or acquitted by a 
general court-martial, or unless the mark of desertion is erased by 
competent authority. 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 165 

Desertions. 

1085 . .The letter R, marked against ax>erson's name on the books 
of the Paymaster, is to signify desertion, and no arjplication to the 
Department for its removal will be entertained, unless the Depart- 
ment is furnished with sufficient evidence, either direct or circum- 
stantial, that, in reality, there was no intention to desert. 

1086. .If the account of any person returning, or delivered on 
board, with an R already appearing against his name, has not actu- 
ally been transmitted to the Fourth Auditor, the Commander of a 
squadron, or of a vessel acting singly, may have it removed, if he is 
satisfied upon explanation that it ought not in justice to remain, in 
which case the party is to be recredited with the wages that were 
due him when the R was placed against his name, and credited with 
the proceeds that may have resulted from the sale of his effects left 
on board, or, if he was in debt, with any balance of them that may 
appear in his favor ; but under no circumstances is any allowance 
of wages to be made to him for the time of his unauthorized absence. 

1087. -Should desertions occur from a vessel in a port of the 
United States, her Commanding Officer, before sailing, is to transmit, 
to the Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting, a list and description 
of the deserters, and a duplicate of the same, with a statement of the 
reward offered in each case, to the Commanding Officer of the station, 
if there be one at the place, and if not, to the Commanding Officer 
of the station nearest to it, iu order that he may receive such desert- 
ers, if apprehended, and have the reward offered for them paid. 

1088. -When any person belonging to the naval service shall 
desert therefrom, if within the United States, application shall be 
made to the civil authorities for his apprehension and delivery. If 
in the waters of any foreign nation, between which nation and the 
United States the apprehension and delivery of deserters is provided 
for by treaty, proceedings for his recovery shall be taken by the 
Senior Officer present, in accordance with the provisions of such 
treaty ; and in cases where no such treaty provisions exist, the 
same course, as provided by treaty with other nations, shall be fol- 
lowed, if it shall be practicable to do so, otherwise direct applica- 
tion to the proper authorities shall be made by the Senior Officer 
present. 

1089- -If a deserter from a vessel of war of the United States, in 
a foreign port, desert to or take refuge on board a vessel of war of 



166 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Medals of Honor. 

another nation than that to which the port belongs, the Senior 
Officer present shall make a formal request for his delivery to the 
senior foreign naval officer present of the nation in question. If the 
request is not complied with, he shall rej)ort the case and circum- 
stances immediately to the Navy Department. 

1090 ..If any person belonging to the Navy, charged with crime, 
shall desert therefrom, in the waters of any foreign nation, between 
which nation and the United States a treaty of extradition for the 
apprehension and delivery of persons charged with crimes may 
exist, the Senior Officer present shall take measures for his recovery, 
in accordance with the provisions of such treaty. 

1091. .In no case shall force be used to recover deserters abroad, 
either from the shore or from foreign ships ; but officers may be sent 
to either shore or ships to identify deserters. 

1092 ..In case of shipwreck, or any other circumstance except 
capture by an enemy, whereby any person belonging to a vessel of 
the Navy shall become unavoidably separated from the command, 
it shall be his duty to proceed at once to the nearest ship, squadron, 
or station, and report himself to the officer in command. In the 
event of failure to do this, he will be regarded as a deserter, and no 
claim for wages will be allowed unless he shall prove, to the satis- 
faction of the Department, that he was prevented by circumstances 
beyond his control. 

ARTICLE XX. 
Medals of Honor. 

1093 ..An act of Congress, approved May 17, 1864, directs that 
seamen distinguishing themselves in battle, or by extraordinary 
heroism in the line of their proiession, may be promoted to forward 
warrant officers, or acting master's mates, as they may be best quali- 
fied, upon the recommendation of their Commanding Officer, ap- 
proved by the Flag Officer and the Department ; and that, upon 
such promotion, they shall receive a gratuity of one hundred dol- 
lars and a "Medal of Honor. 7 - 

1094. -In all cases of selections, as above authorized, Command- 
ing Officers are to communicate the names of the individuals with- 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 167 

Allotments. 

out delay, in order that the Department may take prompt action 
with regard to them; and if the selection involve promotion, as 
contemplated by the act of Congress just mentioned, those officers 
are to he particular in stating whether it should be that of a for- 
Avard warrant officer, or to that of an acting master's/mate, together 
with their reasons therefor. 

ARTICLE XXI. 

Allotments. 

1095 . . An allotment must not exceed one-half the pay ot the per- 
son granting it, except by the special permission of the Secretary 
of the Navy. It must be confined to making provision for the sup- 
port of the family or other relatives of the grantor, for such time 
as he may be absent from them on public duty. It must not be 
made payable on any other than the last day of the month. After 
having been signed, it must have the approval of the Commander 
of the vessel or station to which the person making it is attached, 
and will be registered by the Paymaster of such vessel or station, 
who will be responsible for its deduction from the grantor's pay ; or, 
in special cases, it will be registered at the Fourth Auditors Office. 
It will be executed iu duplicate, and in the case of commissioned or 
warrant officers, one }3art will be transmitted by the Paymaster who 
has registered it, to the Fourth Auditor's Office, and in the case of 
any other person, both parts will be so transmitted. The Paymas- 
ter will send, with the allotments registered by him, a general ab- 
stract for the use of the Fourth Auditor's Office, and a particular 
abstract for each of the pay agents by whom they are payable. 
The death, discharge, forfeiture of pay by sentence of a court-mar- 
tial, or desertion of a person who has an allotment running, will be 
communicated, by the Paymaster of the vessel or station to which 
he was attached, to the Fourth Auditor's Office, and to the pay agent 
by whom it is payable, by the first opportunity that may occur ; in 
default of which the Paymaster will be held liable for the amount 
paid by the pay agent in consequence of such neglect. In case of a 
discharge abroad, he will charge the allotment for as many months 
in advance as will probably be required for information of the dis- 



168 REGTJL ATIONS FOE, THE 

Port Admiral. 

charge to reach the Fourth Auditor's Office. Immediately upon the 
return of a vessel to the United States, at the expiration of her 
cruise, the Paymaster will send to the Fourth Auditor's Office, and 
to the several pay agents by whom they are payable, a list of the 
allotments to be stopped. When an allotment is to be discontinued 
by request of the person granting the same, the reason must be as- 
signed for its discontinuance. One letter should be addressed to 
the Fourth Auditor's Office, and one to the pay agent by whom it is 
payable. , 

1096. .All persons enlisting for the Navy, on being transferred to 
a sea-going vessel, will be allowed to allot only a sum not exceeding 
one-half the wages corresponding with the rate they received on 
enlisting. Any subsequent rating conferred on board such vessel is 
not to govern in determining the amount that may be allotted. 

10 9 7.. Allotments shall be made out by the Paymaster, and ap- 
proved by the Commanding Officer, for all those persons on board 
who may wish to leave them for the benefit of their families or rel- 
atives, at the earliest moment after the ship is put in commission, 
and shall be promptly forwarded by Lim as required, in order to in- 
sure payment when due. In cases of capture of officers or men who 
have granted allotments which may expire after their capture, the 
monthly payments of the same are to be continued by pay agents 
until otherwise ordered. 

ARTICLE XXII. 
IPort Admirals, 3favy Yards, and Xaval Stations. 

Section 1. — Port Admiral. 

1098 ..Whenever an officer shall be appointed as Port Admiral 
the geographical limits of his command will be defined by the Sec- 
retary of the Navy. 

1099 - - All United States vessels in commission, stationed, or ar- 
ri ving, within the limits of his command, unless commanded by, or 
in the presence ox and acting under the orders of, his superior officer, 
will make their reports to him, and obey his orders generally, until 
turned over to the navy yard authorities. 

1100. -He will cause every vessel not commanded by his senior, 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 169 

Commanding Officer of a Navy Yard. 

fitting for, or returning from, a cruise, to be inspected by a board of 
three Line Officers, who will report to him the state of her prepara- 
tion for battle, discipline, and general efficiency for service; whether 
any alterations have been made during the cruise, in the vessel, her 
armament, equipment, or arrangement ; and if so, their nature and 
extent, and by whose authority. 

1101. .He will not permit vessels to remain in port longer than 
may be absolutely necessary, after orders have been received for 
their departure. 

1102. .He will have supervision over the rendezvous for recruits 
and receiving vessels when anchored in the roads. 

1103 ..He will exercise no authority or control over the Com- 
mandant of the navy yard, or over any other establishment, per- 
sons, vessels, or property, under the immediate authority of, and in 
charge of, that Commandant. 

1104 ..When he is absent on leave or duty, or from illness, or 
other cause, the Senior Line Officer on duty under his command will 
act in his stead. 

1105 ..He will receive and return visits of foreign officers ; if he 
has not a nag-ship of his own, a boat and crew suitable to his rank 
will be kept on board the receiving ship for his convenience ; if 
there is no receiving ship, he will arrange with the Commandant of 
the navy yard to furnish him with a proper boat in Avhich to visit 
foreign vessels. 

1106 . . He may select an aid or aids from the receiving ship when 
about to visit a foreign man-of-war, or for other purposes. 

1107 ..When the Commanding Officer of a navy yard is also 
charged with the duties of a Port Admiral, he is to govern himself, 
in discharging the duties of the latter office, by the above instruc- 
tions, as far as they can be made applicable to him. 



Section 2. — Commanding Officer of a Navy Yard. 

1108 ..The Commanding Officer shall, under the direction of the 
Secretary of the Navy, exercise entire control over every depart- 
ment in the navy yard, and will be considered responsible for the 
due preservation of all buildings and stores contained therein, and 



170 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Commanding Officer of a Navy Yard. 

of all vessels in ordinary or repairing, and for the judicious appli- 
cation of all labor. 

1109 . . In the event of his being temporarily away — absent either 
on leave or duty — or unable to perform his duties by illness or other- 
wise, the Executive Officer is to act in his stead, but he shall not 
alter any of the regulations established for the yard. 

1110. .He will cause the mechanics and others employed in the 
yard to be mustered conformably to instructions. He will be par- 
ticularly careful that none but effective men are employed, and no 
more than are requisite, and that they are obtained on the most 
favorable terms to the United States consistent with the instruc- 
tions he may receive from the Navy Department. 

1111. .The rate of wages of the employes in the navy yard shall 
conform, as nearly as is consistent with the public interest, with 
those of private establishments in the immediate vicinity of the re- 
spective yards, to be determined by the Commandants of the navy 
yards, subject to the approval and revision of the Secretary of the 
Navy. 

1112 . -He is to approve all pay-rolls for labor, and bills for sup- 
plies furnished, upon- being satisfied of their correctness and with 
the prices charged. 

1113 ..He shall see that all officers and other persons employed 
in the yard perform their duties in a proper manner, and that all 
reports and returns are made within the time and in the manner 
which may be directed by the Navy Department, and shall not allow 
any materials of any kind to be used except for public purposes; 
nor any mechanic, laborer, or other person, or horses or cattle, to do 
any work excey)t for public purposes, during working hours, as au- 
thorized by the Department. 

1114 . . He will cause all lights and fires on board vessels under 
his control to be extinguished as early in the evening as is directed 
to be done on board vessels in commission, and he will establish 
proper regulations to guard against accident from fire in the vessels 
under his charge, and in the dwellings and other buildings within 
the yard. 

1115. .He will see that the fire-engines are at all times in good 
order, and will organize a fire department in the yard, and appoint 
13 roper fire companies, including hook-and-ladder, from the navy 






NAVY OF THE Ujst ITE d STATES. 171 

Commanding Officer of a Navy Yard. 

officers and tlie master and other workmen, excej)tmg those who 
belong to or are members of fire companies without and in the 
vicinity of the yard ; and once in every month, before the time of 
breaking off work in the afternoon, the fire companies shall exer- 
cise one hour, or until the time to break off work arrives. 

1116. .The refusal of any foreman or other workman in the yard 
to perform duty in the fire companies of the yard, shall, unless he 
belongs to a fire company without and in the immediate vicinity of 
the yard, be considered good cause for his immediate dismissal from 
the government employ ; or when, on any alarm of fire in the yard, 
any such person does not appear at his post, unless he can give 
satisfactory reason for his absence, he shall be considered equally 
liable to dismissal. All absentees at the exercise of the fire com- 
panies are to be reported to the Commandant. 

Ill 7 ..The Executive Officer will be appointed to direct the fire 
department, and he will frequently examine the engines and all 
apparatus for subduing fires, and report at once any deficiencies, 
and once a month, at least, in writing, their actual condition. The 
carpenter, or other proper pjerson, will take charge of and keep in 
order the engines, hose, and fire-buckets, and will report to the 
officer in command of the fire department any deficiencies, that they 
may be immediately remedied. 

1118 .-An alarm of fire in the yard will be given by the ringing 
of the yard and the ships' bells, and the firing of a gun, if it can be 
readily done, and the same alarm may be given for fires adjacent to 
or near the yard, which may expose it to danger. 

1119 ..When he shall deem it prudent and advisable, he will 
direct the fire-engines and other apparatus to be sent to extinguish 
fires near to the yard, but they are to be kept under the control of 
their own officers, and must return to the yard immediately, if so 
directed by the Commanding Officer. 

1120 ..He is not to authorize or allow any alterations in the pre- 
scribed arrangements or plans of the yard, nor the purchase of any 
surplus stores, nor the sale of any articles, unless specially directed 
or authorized by the Navy Department. 

1121 . The pass- word for the night, and the countersign, when he 
shall deem proper, may be issued by the Commanding Officer of the 
yard to such persons only as he may direct to be intrusted with them. 



172 REGULATIONS FOR, THE 

Commanding Officer of a Navy Yard. 

1122 ..A regular journal shall be kept by the line officer second 
in rank after the Executive Officer, under the direction of the Com- 
mandiug Officer, in which shall be entered the time when all officers 
report for duty at, or shall be detached from, the yard, when any 
vessel is received for repairs or put in commission, the number 01 
mechanics and others employed, the arrival and departure of all ves- 
sels of war and of vessels with stores of any kind for the yard, the 
time when any vessel is taken into or removed from the dock, the 
state of the wind and weather, as well as the barometer and ther- 
mometer, and the other principal transactions of the yard. 

1123 . . On the first of each month Commandants of navy yards or 
shore stations will forward to the Secretary of the Navy a report of 
the vessels of the Navy repairing or fitting for sea at such yard or 
station, which report will embrace, in separate columns, the name 
of the vessel, her rate, probable time of completion of hull, probable 
time of completion of machinery, when ready for officers to mess on 
board, when ready for sea, name and rank of commanding officer, 
and any remarks that may be deemed necessary. This report will 
be in lieu of the weekly one heretofore required, and will also em- 
brace the names, &c, of the vessels on service connected with the 
yard or station. 

1124 . . When a vessel is directed to be placed in ordinary, or given 
into his charge for repair, he will cause her to be properly moored 
or otherwise secured. 

112 5.. Although the control of the Commander over a vessel is 
to cease when the vessel is placed in charge of the Commanding 
Officer of a yard for repairs or equipment, it is hereby made the 
duty of such Commander to point out to the Commandant of the 
yard any defects or deficiencies which he may have discovered. 

1126. -Whenever the 'Commander, or other officers belonging to a 
vessel fitting out or undergoing repairs at a navy yard, shall be di- 
rected to report to the Commanding Officer of the yard, such officers, 
and any other persons belonging to the vessel, may be employed in 
stowing or equipping her, in moving or securing her, or in preparing 
her equipments, whenever it can be done to advantage. 

1127. .When a vessel in commission shall be placed in a proper 
situation to receive any repairs that may have been ordered, her 
officers and crew may, if he deems necessary, be removed to some 



NAYY OF THE UNITED STATES. 173 

Commanding Officer of a Navy Yard. 

other vessel or quarters until her repairs shall be completed, and 
strict care must he taken that such vessel or quarters, and all arti- 
cles belonging to them, are at all times kept perfectly clean ami in 
good order by the persons using them for the time being. 

1128 . . He will not permit any vessel in commission to be repaired 
at the yard under his command without the sanction of the Depart- 
ment, except" in cases of emergency, and in all such urgent cases 
surveying officers shall be duly appointed, and a copy of their re- 
port shall be forwarded to said bureau without delay. 

1129.. He shall report to the Bureau of Construction and Repair 
the time when he receives a vessel for repair, when the repairs are 
commenced, and the time when she is returned into the charge of 
the Commander, or when her repairs are completed. 

1130 ..When a vessel in ordinary is to be equipped for ser- 
vice, the equipments shall be made under the . direction of the 
Commanding Officer of the yard, conformably to general regula- 
tions, or to such orders as he may receive from the Secretary of the 
Navy. 

1131.. When a vessel shall be stowed and equipped under his di- 
rection, he shall take care that the officer who is appointed to take 
command shall be furnished with the drawings and -plans referred 
to in paragraph 161, and with lists of all the stores and provisions 
which may have been put on board of her in the respective depart- 
ments, and their cost, with the draught of water when the vessel 
is light, and at other times. 

1132 .. When he shall be directed to build, equip, or repair any 
vessel, or to construct any building, or to make any improvement 
in the navy yard, he will direct an account to be opened against 
such vessel, building, or improvement, debiting it with the number 
of days' work, and the cost of labor performed by each class of me- 
chanics and laborers, and the quantity and cost of the different ma- 
terial used, detailed reports of which are to be forwarded to the 
proper bureau when the objects are completed. 

1133 ..When requisitions duly approved are made for articles 
which are not in store, he will direct the officer in charge of the de- 
partment for which the articles are wanted to make requisitions for 
such as he may deem necessary, upon the purchasing agent, in the 
case of open purchases, or upon the contractor when the required 



174 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Commanding Officer of a Navy Yard. 

article is deliverable under contract, and will approve and forward 
them, that the articles may be promptly furnished. 

1134. -He will keep a hill-book, in which shall be copied all bills 

or articles which may be delivered for any special object in the 

yard, and be approved by him, keeping each appropriation and ob- 

iect distinct from every other. He shall keep marginal duplicates 

of all requisitions which he may approve. 

1135 ..The officers of the Navy employed in navy yards are to 
have the charge of masting, rigging, stowing, arming, equipping, 
dismasting, mooring, and moving all vessels at the yard. 

1136. -He will direct the constructor to furnish the time clerks 
daily with lists of the distribution of the workmen employed un- 
der his superintendence ; the chief Steam and Civil Engineers, the 
same in reference to those employed under their direction; and 
the foremen not under the Constructor, Chief, or Civil Engineer 
will report in the same manner as to those employed under them. 

1137 ..He will cause prudent scrutiny to be exercised overall 
articles and packages passing in or out of the yard ; and when arti- 
cles or packages shall be suspected as improper to be passed, they 
are to be stopped and examined, and if found to be of improper 
character to be passed in or out of the yard, are to be detained and 
reported to the Commanding Officer. 

1138. -He will impress upon mechanics and all others that it is 
one condition of their employment that they conform to the estab- 
lished regulations of the yard. 

1139 ..He will not allow smoking in the yard, except in the offi- 
cers' quarters and their inclosures, and the quarters of the ordinary 
men. 

1140 ..He will cause the entering gates of the yard to be closed 
at sunset, and no visitors will be allowed after that time, unless to 
the officers attached to the yard, or persons on board the vessels 
alongside the yard. 

1141 ..No alterations must be made in the arrangements of the 
hull, the dimensions or arrangements of the masts, spars, boats, or 
other equipments of any vessel which may be ordered for repair or 
equipment, without the previous sanction of the Department ; but 
f, in the opinion of the Commanding Officer of the yard, any changes 
can be made to improve the qualities of a vessel, or increase the 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 175 

Executive Officer, Lieutenants, Masters, etc., of a Navy Yard. 

accommodations of lier crew, lie will make timely reports of the 
same to the proper bureau, with the reasons for recommending the 
alterations, and an estimate of the probable increase of expense 
which such alterations would occasion. 

1142 . . When a vessel is transferred to the Commandant of a yard 
at the expiration of a cruise, he will take care that all the stores 
and outfits in the several departments are duly surveyed and de- 
livered into the charge of the proper officers ; he will use every pre- 
caution to prevent losses in the transfer from the ship to the store- 
houses, and will require all officers in charge of stores to superintend 
the removal. 

Section 3. — Executive Officer of a Navy Yard. 

1143.. The Line Officer attached to a navy yard to perform gen- 
eral duties therein, who is next in rank or seniority to the officer 
appointed to its command, shall be the Executive Officer of the 
establishment ; and he is to perform such duties as may be assigned 
to him by the Commanding Officer. 

1144 ..He will take precedence, after the Commandant, over all 
officers and persons attached to the yard and connected with it, and 
all such officers and persons will be subject to his orders. 

1145.. He shall, under the direction of his Commanding Officer, 
regulate the police of the yard, correct all abuses, and report to him 
such as are important. 

1146.. In the absence of the Executive Officer, the Line Officer 
next in rank or seniority is to attend to his duties ; no one senior to 
the Executive Officer is to be employed on duty at the yard in the 
different departments. 

Section 4. — Lieutenants, Masters, and Ensigns oj a Navy Yard. 

1147. .The Line Officer next in rank or seniority to the Executive 
Officer is, under his direction, to observe a general superintendence 
over the yard; and he will correct, as far as may be in his power, 
all irregularities that may come under his notice, and report such 
as may require further notice to the Executive Officer. 

1148..A LieuteDant or Master, or other commissioned officer, is 



176 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Ordnance Officer of a Navy Yard. 

to "be present at the muster of the mechanics and laborers, to see 
that they answer properly to their names, and repair, without noise 
or delay, to their respective places of employment. 

1149.. In the absence of the Line Officer next in rank to the 
Executive Officer, the Line Officer next in rank or seniority to him 
will attend to his duties ; and so, too, with regard to the absence of 
any other Line Officer below the Executive Officer, the one next in 
rank is to attend to his duties. 

Section 5. — Ordnance Officer of a Navy Yard. 

1150 . . He is to take charge of all articles coming under the cogni- 
zance of the Bureau of Ordnance. He will see to the proper care of 
these articles, and make the returns prescribed by the Bureau of 
Ordnance. 

1151. .The Ordnance Officer shall carefully scrutinize all requisi- 
tions made upon the stores in his charge by the subordinates in his 
department, in order to check excessive issues ; and whenever a 
quantity of material is issued to any officer or master workman for 
manufacture, having charge of such manufacture, his receipt will 
be taken for the quantity of material delivered, and when the manu- 
facture is completed and the articles turned into store, such officer 
or master workman shall make a proper exhibit of the portion used, 
and the balance is to be returned. 

1152.. He will carefully examine, weigh, or measure, all articles, 
whether received on contracts or open purchases, and only give 
receipts for them after they have been found to agree with the 
terms of the contract or advertisement, and if so, enter them im- 
mediately on his books, and make out the bills without delay, certify 
them, and hand them to the Commandant for approval, to be trans 
mitted to the parties in interest. 

1153 . . He will supervise all work done under the Bureau of Ord- 
nance in the yard, and have the general superintendence, charge, 
direction, and mustering of all persons employed under its cogni- 
zance. 

1154 ..He will prepare duplicate pay-rolls in his office for pay- 
ing the men, the original of which is to be sent to the Commandant 
of the yard in due time for his approval, and transmitted to the 



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Navigation Officer of a Navy Yard. 

Paymaster of the yard, and the duplicate forwarded to the Bureau. 
The pay-rolls must be certified by him. 

1155.. He will not deliver or issue any article out of the store 
without taking a proper receipt at the time of delivery ; and when a 
vessel has been fully equipped and fitted for her cruise he will make 
an inventory, in duplicate, of all articles, with their cost, furnished 
the vessel, one of which is to be delivered to the Ordnance Officer 
of the vessel before sailing, signed by himself, and the other for- 
warded to the Bureau, receipted by the Ordnance Officer of the 
vessel. 

1156. .He shall attend all sales and surveys of articles under the 
cognizance of the Bureau of Ordnance. 

1157. -Such stores as are condemned he will take care are dis- 
posed of, as the survey, approved by the Bureau, directs, but in no 
case is he to allow articles to be sacrificed through sales at auction. 

1158. .When stores have been landed, surveyed, aud disposed of, 
he will furnish the bureau with a statement, showing the total 
value of them, in order that the vessel may be credited with the 
amount. All stores so landed from vessels must be kept separately. 

1159 ..He is to supi)ly all vessels, when fitting for sea, with such 
armaments and ordnance stores as may be directed by the Bureau 
of Ordnance, taking receipts therefor and transmitting them to the 
bureau. 

1160 . . He will be careful to make his requisitions upon the Bureau 
in ample time for all articles with which he is concerned, in order 
to answer promptly the demands that will probably be made upon 
him, and he will be held responsible for all deficiencies. (See Sec- 
tion 18 — Officers in Charge of Stores.) 

Section 6. — Navigation Officer of a Navy Yard. 

1161 . . He is to take charge of all articles coming under the cogni- 
zance of the Bureau of Navigation. He will see to the proper care 
of these articles, and make the returns prescribed by the Bureau of 
Navigation. 

3JL62 - -The Navigation Officer shall carefully scrutinize all requi- 
sitions made upon the stores in his charge by the subordinates in his 
department, in order to check excessive issues; and whenever a 
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178 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Navigation Officer of a Navy Yard, 

quantity of material is issued to any officer or master workman for 
manufacture, having charge of such manufacture, his receipt will 
be taken for the quantity of material delivered, and when the man- 
ufacture is completed, and the article turned into store, such officer 
or master workman shall make a proper exhibit of the portion used, 
and the balance is to be returned. 

1163 ..He will carefully examine, weigh, or measure all articles, 
whether received on contracts or open purchases, and only give 
receipts for them after they have been found to agree with the 
terms of the contract or advertisement, and if so, enter them im- 
mediately on his books, and make out the bills without delay, certify 
them, and hand them to the Commandant for approval, to be trans- 
mitted to the parties in interest. 

1164 . . He will supervise all work done under the Bureau of Navi- 
gation in the yard, and have the general superintendence, charge, 
4 direction, and mustering of all persons employed under its cogni- 
zance. 

1165 . .He will prepare duplicate pay-rolls in his office for paying 
the men, the original of which is to be sent to the Commandant of 
the yard in due time for his approval, and transmitted to the Pay- 
master of the yard, and the duplicate forwarded to the Bureau. The 
pay-rolls must be certified by him. 

1166 ..He will not deliver or issue any article out of the store 
without taking a proper receipt at the time of delivery, and when a 
vessel has been fully equipped and fitted for her cruise he will make 
an inventory, in duplicate, of all articles, with their cost, furnished 
the vessel, one of which is to be delivered to the Navigation Officer of 
the vessel before sailing, signed by himself, and the other forwarded 
to the Bureau, receipted by the Navigation Officer of the vessel. 

1167 . . He shall attend all sales and surveys of articles under the 
cognizance of the Bureau of Navigation. 

1168 ..Such stores as are condemned he will take care are dis- 
posed of, as the survey, approved by the Bureau, directs, but in no 
case is he to allow articles to be sacrificed through sales at auction. 

1169 ..When stores have been landed, surveyed, and disposed of, 
he will furnish the Bureau with a statement, showing the total value 
of them, in order that the vessel may be credited with the amount. 
All stores so landed from vessels must be kept separately. 



NAYY OE THE UNITED STATES. 179 

Equipment Officer of a Navy Yard. 

1170. .He will supply all vessels fitting for sea with the articles 
to he issued from the Navigation Office, taking receipts for the same, 
and transmitting them to the Bureau. 

1171.. He will examine the construction of every vessel in the 
vicinity of the steering apparatus, and ascertain, by personal in- 
spection, that there are no iron bars, rods, stanchions, axles, or 
other iron fastenings in or about the pilot-house, or sufficiently near 
the binnacle, to affect the compasses, but that, on the contrary, all 
metallic fastenings or mountings are made of copper or other suit- 
able composition. He will also specially examine into the condition of 
the compasses of the vessel after they shall have been put on board 
and in the places selected for them. The result of both of these ex- 
aminations, for which he will be held responsible, he will report to 
the Bureau. 

1172.. He will be careful to make timely requisitions upon the 
Bureau for all articles which he is expected to have in charge, in 
order to answer promptly the demands that may be made upon him, 
and he will be held responsible for all deficiencies. (See Section 18 — 
Officers in Charge of Stores.) 

Section 7. — Equipment Officer of a Navy Yard. 

1173 . . He is to take charge of all articles coming under the cogni- 
zance of the Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting. He will see to 
th.Q proper care of these articles, and make the returns prescribed 
by the Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting 

1174.. The Equipment Officer shall carefully scrutinize all requi- 
sitions made upon the stores in his charge by the subordinates in 
his department, in order to check excessive issues, and whenever a 
quantity of material is issued to any officer or master workman for 
manufacture, having charge of such manufacture, his receipt will 
be taken for the quantity of material delivered; and when the 
manufacture is completed, and the articles turned into store, such 
officer or master workman shall make a proper exhibit of the por- 
tion used, and the balance is to be returned. 

11 75.. He will carefully examine, weigh, or measure all articles, 
whether received on contracts or open purchases, and only give 
receipts for thern after they have been found to agree with the 



180 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Equipment Officer of a Navy Yard. 

terms of the contract or advertisement, and if so, enter them im- 
mediately on his books, and make ont the bills without delay, certify 
them, and hand them to the Commandant for approval, to be trans- 
mitted to the parties in interest. 

1176.. He will supervise all work done under the Bureau of 
Equipment and Recruiting in the yard, and have the general super- 
intendence, charge, direction, and mustering of all persons employed 
under its cognizance. 

1177. .He will prepare duplicate pay-rolls in his office for paying 
the men, the original of which is to be sent to the Commandant of 
the yard, in due time for his approval, and transmitted to the Pay- 
master of the yard, and the duplicate forwarded to the Bureau. 
These pay-rolls must be certified by him. 

1178 ..He will not deliver or issue any article out of the store 
without taking a proper receipt at the time of delivery ,* and when 
a vessel has been fully equipped and fitted for her cruise he will 
make an inventory, in duplicate, of all articles, with their cost, 
furnished the vessel, one of which is to be delivered to the Equip- 
ment Officer of the vessel before sailing, signed by himself, and the 
other forwarded to the Bureau, receipted by the Equipment Officer 
of the vessel. 

11 79 ..He shall attend all sales and surveys of articles under the 
cognizance of the Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting. 

1180. -Such stores as are condemned he will take care are dis- 
posed of as the survey, approved by the Bureau, directs, but in no 
■case is he to allow articles to be sacrificed through sales at auction. 

1181.. When stores have been landed, surveyed, and disposed of, 
he will furnish the Bureau with a statement, showing the total 
value of them, in order that the vessel may be credited with the 
amount. All stores so landed from vessels must be kept separately. 

1182 ..He will supply all vessels fitting for sea with the articles 
to be issued from the Equipment Office, taking receipts for the 
same, and transmitting them to the Bureau. 

1183.. He will be careful to make timely requisitions upon the 
Bureau for all articles which he is expected to have in charge, in 
order to answer promptly the demands that may be made upon him, 
and he will be held responsible for all deficiencies. (See Section 
18 — Officers in Charge of Stores.) 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 181 

r 

Chief Engineer of a Navy Yard. 



Section 8. — Chief Engineer of a Navy Yard. 

1184 ..When a Chief Engineer of the Navy shall be attached to 
a navy yard, he shall, under the direction of the Commandant, have 
the superintendence of the construction and repairs of the steam 
and other machinery. 

1185 ..He shall have the supervision, under the Commandant, of 
the foremen and other men employed in the machine and boiler 
shops and foundries, and of all the material used in those depart- 
ments, and be responsible for its preservation and proper use. 

1186 ..He will carefully examine, weigh, or measure all articles, 
whether received on contracts or open purchases, and only give 
receipts for them after they have been found to agree with the terms 
of the contract or advertisement, and if so, enter them immediately 
on his books, and make out the bills without delay, certify them, 
and hand them to the Commandant for approval, to be transmitted 
to the parties in interest. 

118 7 ..All requisitions for materials or articles in his department 
are to be made by the foremen employed under his direction, and, 
when countersigned by him, are to be submitted for the approval of 
the Commandant of the yard, who will allow such as he may deem 
necessary. No articles or materials are to be purchased without 
previous requisitions, nor are any to be used till they are duly in- 
spected, approved, and received. He will have proper requisitions 
made to cover the expenditure of all articles or materials which may 
have been used or condemned during the preceding half month by 
the master workmen. 

1188 -.He will have made out and sign the semi-monthly and 
other reports in his department that are required to be made by the 
Commandant of the yard to the Bureau of Steam Engineering, the 
Commandant causing him to be furnished with the costs and ex- 
penditures necessary for this purpose. 

1189 ..Foremen under him will report at the middle and end of 
each month the expenditure of materials and labor upon the several 
objects under their immediate superintendence. 

1190 -.He will have an exact account kept of all materials and 
labor exj>ended on each and every object, and report to the Com- 



182 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Chief Engineer of a Navy Yard. 

niandant semi-monthly the operations on the same, distinguishing 
the number and classes of men employed, and the kind and quanti- 
ties of materials used in each. 

, 1191. .He will prepare duplicate pay-rolls in his office for paying 
the men, the original of which is to be sent to the Commandant of 
the yard, in due time for his approval, and transmitted to the Pay- 
master of the yard, and the duplicate forwarded to the Bureau. These 
pay-rolls must be certified by him. 

1192.. He will supply all vessels fitting for sea with the articles 
to be issued from his department, taking receipts for the same, and 
transmitting them to the Bureau. 

1193 ..He will not deliver or issue any article out of the store 
without taking a proper receipt at the time of delivery, and when 
a vessel has been fully equipped and fitted for her cruise he will 
make an inventory, in duplicate, of all articles, with their cost, 
furnished the vessel, one of which is to be delivered to the Chief 
Engineer of the vessel before sailing, signed by himself, and the 
other forwarded to the Bureau, receipted by the Chief Engineer of 
the vessel. 

1194 ..When stores have been landed, surveyed, and disposed of, 
he will furnish the Bureau with a statement, showing the total value 
of them, in order that the vessel may be credited with the amount. 
All stores so landed from vessels must be kept separately. 

1195 ..He shall attend all sales and surveys of articles under the 
cognizance of the Bureau of Steam Engineering. 

1196 ..Such stores as are condemned he will take care are dis- 
posed of as the survey, approved by the Bureau, directs, but in no 
case is he to allow articles to be sacrificed through sales at auction. 

1197 ..He will be careful to make timely requisitions upon the 
Bureau for all articles which he is expected to have in charge, in 
order to answer promptly the demands that may be made upon 
him, and he will be held responsible for all deficiencies. 

1198 ..He will, at the end of each fiscal year, submit to the Com- 
mandant a report of the engines and boilers that have been made or 
repaired, showing the original estimate and the actual expenditure. 

1199 ..The Chief Engineer of the yard will have the work done 
as required by the Inspector of Machinery afloat, after approval by 
the Commandant. (See Section 18 — Officers in Charge of Stores.) 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 183 



Chief Engineers, etc. — Surgeon of a Navy Yard. 



Section 9. — Chief Engineers appointed as Inspectors of Machinery afloat. 

1200 . . The Inspector of Steam Machinery afloat is to have charge 
of all steam machinery afloat, at the yard or station, under the direc- 
tion of the Commandant, whether the vessel be under repairs or in 
ordinary; and he is to exercise control over all employes in the 
Engineer's department on hoard snch vessel. 

1201.. He is held responsible for the condition and preservation 
of all the machinery of the vessels under his charge. When a steamer 
is to be laid up at the yard, he will take charge of the machinery at 
the time the Chief Engineer of the vessel is detached, and when 
repairs are to be effected lie will make requisition on the Command- 
ant for the work necessary. 

1202 . .The Inspector of Machinery will make monthly reports to 
the Commandant of the condition of the Engineer's department of 
all vessels under his charge, mentioning all repairs required, and 
will use all proper means for the preservation of their engines, boil- 
ers, and appurtenances. 

1203 ..He will strictly conform to all the orders he may receive 
from the Commandant of the yard, in relation to repair and preser- 
vation of machinery, boilers, tools, &c, of the vessels under his 
charge. 

Section 10. — Surgeon of a Navy Yard. 

1204 . .The Surgeon of a navy yard will, in addition to the duties 
required in the " Instructions for the Government of Medical Offi- 
cers," have charge of all medicines, medical stores, instruments, and 
other articles provided by the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery for 
use at the yard for vessels fitting out, or received from vessels arriv- 
ing there. 

1205 . .He will give his professional attention, when necessary, to 
all officers and other persons belonging to the Navy and Marine 
corps who are attached to the yard for duty. 

1206 ..In case of wounds or injuries received by mechanics or 
laborers while at work in the yard, he is required to apply a first 
dressing, and will expend whatever may be necessary for the pur- 
pose from public stores in his charge. 



184 REGULATIONS FOR THE 



Naval Hospitals. 



1207. -He will report daily to the Commandant the names of all 
persons attached to the navy yard who should he excused from duty 
on account of sickness, and to the officer in command of marines the 
names of all marines who may he unfit for duty. 

1208 . . He will attend the families of officers attached to the yard, 
if necessary. 

1209 ..He will inspect the persons of all recruits who may offer 
to enlist in the marine corps at the navy yard, and of all candidates 
for any appointment in the Navy who may present themselves mnjer 
proper authority. The report in each case must be made according 
to Form No. 24, Appendix. (See Section 18 — Officers in Charge of 
Stores.) 

Section 11. — Naval Hospitals. 

1210 . . When officers of the Navy are admitted into a naval hospi- 
tal with any disease, they are entitled to remain under treatment 
in, and to have all the advantages of, such hospital, until cured, 
unless in the case of chronic disorders which, after an appropriate 
period, shall appear to the Surgeon of the hospital as not susceptible 
of cure. In all such cases the Surgeon of the hospital shall make a 
report to the Commandant of the navy yard, and request a medical 
survey thereon, which survey shall be ordered by the Commandant 
of the navy yard. If the report of the survey shall recommend a 
continuance of treatment, the officer or officers surveyed shall be 
continued on treatment until a subsequent survey or surveys shall 
recommend a discharge from the hospital ; and in all such cases, 
when a medical survey, duly approved, shall recommend the dis- 
charge of an officer from a hospital, it shall be at the option of such 
officer, if disabled or decrepit, to be transferred to the Naval Asylum 
at Philadelphia. A copy of all the papers in such cases shall be for- 
warded by the Commandant of the navy yard to the Secretary of the 
Navy. 

1211 ..The fact that an officer has been treated within a naval 
hospital on account of any disease or disability for four months, or 
for a longer period, is not to be considered as a bar to his readmis- 
sion to the same, or to any other naval hospital. Sick, wounded, 
or disabled officers are entitled to the benefits of naval medical 



NAYY OF THE UNITED STATES. 185 

Surgeons of Naval Hospitals, etc. — Paymaster of a Navy Yard. 

and surgical attendance, either within or without a naval hospital 
or asylum, so long as they remain sick, wounded, or disabled. 

Section 12. — Surgeon of a Naval Hospital. 

12 12.. In addition to the "Instructions for the Government of 
Medical Officers," the Surgeon of a hospital will conform to the 
following : 

12 13.. Whenever patients are left in a hospital after the sailing 
of the vessel from which they were sent, he must, whenever any of 
them are in a situation to justify their removal, report to the Com- 
mandant of the station, that they may be sent to some other vessel. 

1214 . -Whenever any enlisted person shall not have so far recov- 
ered as to justify his removal from the hospital when his term of 
service shall have expired, the Surgeon must immediately report 
such cases to the Commandant of the station, making a particular 
statement of all the facts and circumstances connected with each 
case within his knowledge. 

1215 . .If any clothing or other articles be furnished to men while 
in a hospital, a statement of them, with their cost, is to be made 
upon the back of the clothes lists which accompanied them to the 
hospital, and this is to be duly certified by the proper officer of the 
hospital, in order that the articles may be charged against the pay 
of those who received them. All regulations for a hospital must be 
submitted to the Secretary of the Navy. 

Section 13. — Passed and other Assistant Surgeons of a Navy Yard or 

Hospital. 

12 16.. They will be guided by the regulations prescribed for 
medical officers of the same grade attached to vessels for sea service. 

Section 14. — Paymaster of a Navy Yard. 

1217.. The Paymaster of a navy yard shall pay all officers and 
enlisted persons belonging to the navy attached to the yard and to 
vessels in ordinary at the yard, and, if so ordered, of those belonging 
to receiving vessels, and of such officers as may have their accounts 
transferred to the station for pay 



186 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Inspectors in charge of Paymaster's Stores. 

12 18.. He shall pay all mechanics and laborers who may be em- 
ployed under the direction of the Commandant, npon pay-rolls, 
(which shall have been properly made out, certified, and approved,) 
after he shall have satisfied himself of the correctness of the calcu- 
lation. 

1219 . . As it is important that no more of the working day be ab- 
sorbed in paying the men than can be avoided, they are therefore 
to be divided into convenient gangs, not exceeding one hundred 
each, and be conducted to the pay-office by the foremen or quarter- 
men in the order of their names on the rolls. The names of absentees 
will be called a second time, after the gang to which they belong 
has been paid, and all those who do not answer the second call, ex- 
cept in cases of sickness, shall not be paid until the next pay day. 
The foremen or qnartermen will be held responsible for the quiet 
and proper deportment of the men. 

1220. .He will make ail payments in specie, or in funds which he 
may receive from the government for public use. 

12 21 ..He shall make requisitions monthly, under' the direction 
and with the approval of the Commanding Officer, for such amount 
of money as may be. deemed necessary for the public service in his 
department, such requisitions to be registered and certified to by 
the Commandant's first clerk. 

12 2 2 ..He shall keep distinct accounts of moneys received and 
expended under the different appropriations, and never apply them 
to any other objects than those for which they were drawn, except 
by special written authority from the Secretary of the Navy. 

122 3 ..He will forward to the Department, every two weeks, a 
summary statement, showing his receipts and expenditures during 
that time, with the balances then on hand, under each head of ap- 
propriation ; also, an estimate of the amount required under each 
head for the succeeding month. 

Section 15. — Inspectors in charge of Paymaster's Stores. 

1224 ..Inspecting officers at navy yards, connected with the 
Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, in addition to the duties pre- 
scribed in the " Instructions for the Government of Inspectors in 
Charge of Stores, Naval Storekeepers, Paymasters, and Assistant 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 187 

Na vol Construe tors . 

Paymasters," are charged with the following : To receive and in- 
spect all stores offered, by authority, for delivery under contract, 
and to prepare for issue all such as strictly conform to the condi- 
tions of the contract and to the samples where they have been pro- 
vided ; to receive stores from ships returned from sea, and to keep 
and issue them ; but articles of clothing and small stores which 
have been injured by use will not thus be received. 

1225.. The term "stores," as applicable to articles belonging to 
the Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, is to be understood as mean- 
ing provisions, clothing, small stores, candles, Paymasters stationery 
and blanks, and Paymaster's Yeoman's stores. 

1226 . .Inspectors in charge are hereby required to exercise a con- 
stant supervision over the stores in their custody, and to protect 
them against deterioration by every means in their power. They 
are not to issue clothing that does not conform strictly to the uni- 
form. (See Article 18 — Officers in Charge of Stores.) 

Section 16. — Naval Constructors. 

1227 ..The Naval Constructor will act under the orders of the 
Commandant of the Yard. 

1228 ..He will have the general superintendence and charge of 
the construction and repair of all vessels depending upon the Bureau 
of Construction and Repair, and also the immediate superintendence 
and direction of all foremen, mechanics, and laborers employed on 
the work confided to him by the Commandant, and give them their 
instructions accordingly. 

1229. .He will conform strictly to the instructions he may receive 
for the building, repair, and equipment of ships, being furnished 
with copies of orders and contracts relating thereto ; if, in the course 
of the repairs of any vessel, defects should be discovered which were 
not previously known, and which will be likely to increase the ex- 
pense or delay the work, he will make immediate report of the same 
to the Commandant for further instructions, suggesting such modi- 
fications as will be likely to diminish the expense or increase the 
utility of the work. He will prepare bills of materials and schedules 
for advertisements, and also the accounts of cost of building and 
repairing ships, for transmission, when duly approved, to the Bureau 
of Construction and Repair, through the Commandant. 



188 REGULATIONS FOR THE 



Naval Constructors. 



12 30.. He will, before tlie end of each fiscal year, submit to the 
Commandant a report of the vessels that have been built, repaired, 
and for which work has been done, giving the original estimate and 
the actual expenditure. 

1231.. He will make such suggestions to the Commandant of the 
Yard, in the line of his profession or duty, as he may consider to be 
to the interest of the service. 

12 32.. He will inform the Commandant, in writing, of the num- 
ber of persons required, and suggest names in the various depart- 
ments under his control, and will recommend their respective wages ; 
when the services of any are no longer required, he will report to 
the Commandant the persons that may be dispensed with ; and he 
will report any irregularity, incompetence, neglect, or misconduct 
of persons under his direction. 

1233.. The inspection and measurement of all materials used on 
work under his charge, and the storage and preservation of timber 
and wood materials for the same, will be under his supervision. He 
will adopt measures to prevent the use or conversion of any timber 
or other wood material, or metals, until such account is taken of 
them as will secure a correct expenditure ; and he will cause daily 
returns to be made to the inspector of timber of the wood materials 
which may have been used or converted, and to what object applied, 
that he may be able to furnish the information necessary, in order 
that requisitions may be made to cover the expenditure. He will 
have such records and registers of timber kept as may be prescribed, 
that the particular species and quantities remaining on hand may 
at all times be known. All condemned timber shall be expended as 
such, and shall be included in the semi-monthly requisitions accord- 
ingly, as if expended in any other manner. 

1234 ..He will examine and certify to the correctness of all bills 
for materials and supplies for work under his charge ; will examine 
and certify as to the correctness of the pay-roll for labor ; will have 
made and sign the semi-monthly and other reports in his depart 
ment that are required to be made by the Commandant of the yard 
to the Bureau of Construction and Repair, the Commandant causing 
him to be furnished with the costs and expenditures necessary for 
this purpose. 

1235 ..All requisitions for materials or articles in his depart- 



KA.VY OF THE UNITED STATES. 189 

Civil Engineers. 

ment are to be, made by the foremen employed under Ms direction, 
and, when countersigned by him, are to be submitted for the ap- 
proval of the Commandant of the yard, who will allow such as he 
may deem necessary. No articles or materials are to be purchased 
without previous requisitions, nor are any to be used till they are 
duly inspected, approved, and received. He will have proper requi- 
sitions made to cover the expenditure of all the timber and wood 
materials which may have been used or condemned during the pre- 
ceding half month by the foremen. 

1236. -Foremen under him will report at the middle and end of 
each month the expenditure of materials and labor upon the several 
objects under their immediate superintendence. 

1237.. He will be responsible for all waste and inrproper use of 
materials by those under his general superintendence. 

1238 ..He will have an exact account kept of all materials and 
labor expended on each and every object, and report to the Com- 
mandant semi-monthly the operations on the same, distinguishing 
the number and classes of the men employed, and the kind and 
quantities of materials used on each. 

1239 ..He will carefully examine, at least once a month, all the 
vessels which may be on the stocks or in ordinary, to see that they 
are as effectually guarded against change of form or decay as cir- 
cumstances will permit, and make a written report to the Com- 
mandant of the yard. 

Section 17. — Civil Engineers. 

1240. .The Civil Engineer will supervise the erection and tho 
repairs of all buildings, docks, and wharves in the navy yards, and., 
if required to do so, of magazines, or other naval structures outside 
the yards. He will have the immediate supervision and direction 
of the Architect, when one is employed at the same yard with him- 
self, and of all foremen and other workmen employed on said works, 
and will recommend their respective wages, and be responsible for 
the proper distribution and employment of all materials for said 
work. 

1241 . . He will conform strictly to the instructions he may receive 
for executing the work, and will, when directed, prepare plans of 



190 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Civil Engineers. 

any proposed improvements, and estimates of cost, with bills of 
materials and schedules for advertisements, which may be neces- 
sary for such works. 

1242.. He will, at the end of each fiscal year, submit, through 
the Executive Officer of the yard, a report to the Commandant, 
giving a clear and distinct statement of the condition of the several 
works of improvement, the original estimate to complete, the amount 
appropriated" for each object, progress made upon each, and the total 
amount expended during the year, the amount of appropriations un- 
expended for each, and the additional amount, if any, required to 
complete such work ; and if any more is required than was originally 
estimated the reasons must be fully stated. 

1243. .He will inform the Executive Officer daily of the number 
and rating of persons proposed for employment the next day, noting 
in each class the proposed increase or decrease of force, and, when a 
decrease is directed, will indicate for discharge those least service- 
able. 

1244 ..The inspection and measurement of all materials and of 
all works under his charge will be under his supervision. 

1245 . . He will examine and certify to the correctness of all bills 
for materials and supplies for works under his supervision ; will ex- 
amine as to the correctness of the pay-roll for labor, and sign the 
monthly and semi-monthly reports that are required to be made by 
the Commandant of the yard to the Bureau of Yards and Docks. 

1246 ..All requisitions for materials or articles to be expended 
will be made by the foreman, countersigned by him, and approved 
by the Executive Officer, who will transmit them to the Command- 
ant of the yard, who will allow such as he may deem necessary. 
No articles or materials are to be purchased without previous requi- 
sition, nor are any to be used till they are duly inspected, approved, 
and receipted for. 

124 7 ..Foremen under him will report at the middle and end of 
each month the expenditure of materials and labor upon the several 
objects under their immediate superintendence. 

1248 ..He will be responsible for all waste or improper use of 
materials by those under his general supervision. 

1249 ..He will keep an exact account of all materials and labor 
expended upon each object, and report, through the Executive Offi- 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 191 

Foremen. 

cer, to the Commandant, semi-monthly, the operations on the same, 
distinguishing the number and class of the men employed, and the 
kind and quantities of materials used on each. 

1250 ..He will he careful that the sums expended and the lia- 
bilities incurred shall not exceed the appropriation for any work ; 
to which end he will be furnished with copies of appropriations and 
contracts made, and of orders issued in relation to any works under 
his supervision; and he will be duly responsible for the execution 
of the works supervised by him, according to the plans approved 
by the Bureau, and within the time and amount estimated by him. 

Section 18. — Foremen. 

1251 ..Application to fill the position of Foreman in any of the 
navy yards will hereafter be addressed to the Secretary of the Navy, 
through the Commandant, stating the name, age, and residence of 
the applicant, with testimonials as to his character, habits, pro- 
fessional skill and competency, and physical ability. 

1252 ..Whenever a vacancy shall occur in the office of Foreman, 
the board convened at the navy yard where such vacancy exists 
will, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, make a selec- 
tion from the qualified candidates, who shall have passed a satis- 
factory examination, irrespective of locality — no District or State 
being entitled to preference for these positions. 

12 53 ..They shall be in the yard at the times of commencing 
work, and keep, in due form, an account of the labor performed by 
each individual in their respective departments, upon different ob- 
jects, and hand copies of the same, daily, to the clerk of the Com- 
manding Officer, and also to the Chief Engineer, Naval Constructor, 
or Civil Engineer, if under the direction of either, and if not, to the 
clerk of the yard. 

1254 ..They shall have the immediate control of, and be vigilant 
to insure constant diligence from, all those who may be employed 
under their special direction. 

1255 . .They shall attend all surveys and conversions of materials 
in their respective departments, and, if necessary, they may suggest 
measures for their better preservation. 

1256. . In the selection of workmen, they may suggest the names 



192 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

% Foremen. 

of persons to be employed, but their employment shall be made with 
the approval of their superiors in office. Whenever men shall be 
required, and new ones taken into the yard who may not be known 
to the Chiefs of the respective departments as good workmen in 
their several branches, they shall be examined satisfactorily to the 
officer in charge of the department concerned, and are not to be 
received unless they are found to be competent and correct men. 
When a reduction is required they may suggest the names of the 
persons, but the selection for discharge shall be approved by the 
head of the department, under the direction of the Commandant, 
and shall embrace those Avhose services can best be dispensed with 
consistently with the interest of the government and justice to 
individuals. 

1257. .They will hand to the heads of their respective depart- 
ments, daily, an account of all materials which may have been 
taken for use the preceding day by them or by their direction. 

1258. -No article whatever is to be taken or used without the 
knowledge of the proper foreman. 

12 59 ..The foremen must give their regular personal attendance, 
and are only to be }3aid, like all other persons who receive daily pay, 
for the time they actually attend to their duty in the yard, except 
when special exemptions shall be granted with the approbation of 
the Navy Department. 

12 60. .No foreman shall leave the yard during working hours 
without the knowledge and consent of the head of the department 
in which he is employed, and the permission of the Executive Officer. 
No person employed under him shall leave the yard during working 
hours without the permission of the Executive Officer. 

1261 ..If any mechanic or other person employed in a navy yard 
shall be dismissed for misconduct, by proper authority, such person 
3hall not again be employed in any navy yard, except by direction 
of the Secretary of the Navy. 

1262 ..All nominations of persons to office in navy yards, which 
require the approval of the Department, must be accompanied by 
testimonials of character, habits, and competency, and a statement 
as to whether the nominee has served in the military or naval ser- 
vice, and if so, how long, and in what capacity. 

1263 . . In the employment of mechanics and others in navy yards, 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 193 

Officers in Charge of Stores. 

at naval stations, or elsewhere in the service of the Navy Depart- 
ment, preference is to he given to such as have heen honorahly dis- 
charged from the Navy and Marine Corps, and especially to those 
who have been wounded or disabled, provided they are capable of 
performing satisfactorily the duties required of them. 

Sectiok 19. — Officers in Charge of Stores. 

1264. .The officers in charge of stores shall take charge of such 
stores and materials as come under the cognizance of the Bureaus 
of Ordnance, Construction and Repair, Equipment and Recruit- 
ing, Steam Engineering, Navigation, Medicine and Surgery, and 
Provisions and Clothing, as may be received into the yard for the 
public service and confided to them, and be held responsible for the 
expenditure of the same, conformably to the general instructions of 
the service, or to the special orders of the Navy Department. 

12 65. .They will, under the direction of the Commanding Officer 
of the yard, have charge of the keys of all store-houses and buildings 
containing articles for which they are responsible. The keys must 
never be taken out of the yard, and when not in use must be kej)t 
hung up in some safe place. 

1266. .Whenever directed by the Commanding Officer, they shall 
make requisitions upon the purchasing agents for open purchases 
or upon contractors, when the required articles are deliverable un- 
der contract, for all articles that may be wanted, and present the 
same to him for his approval. Such requisitions must always specify 
the appropriation and class, and, when practicable, the particular 
object for which the articles are required ; and separate requisitions 
must be made under each appropriation for which articles may be 
wanted. Requisitions for articles purchased at the expense of con- 
tractors must be made in the form given in Section 21 of this article. 

1267. .They shall not give a receipt for any articles delivered in 
the yard, whether purchased by purchasing agents or delivered by 
contractors, until they shall have been furnished with an invoice or 
bill stating the particular articles, their cost, and the object or ap- 
propriation for which they were purchased, nor until the articles 
shall have been certified to be of proper quality by the inspecting 
officers, unless directed by written order of the Commanding Officer. 
13 NE 



194 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Officers in Charge of Stores. 

1268. .All articles which may be received into the yard for public 
service, or which may be placed in their charge by the order of the 
Commanding Officer, shall be immediately entered on their books 
under the respective appropriations to which they belong. 

12 69.. They shall not deliver articles for any other object or 
appropriation than that for which they were originally received, 
except by a written order of, or upon a requisition approved by, the 
Commanding Officer of the Yard, which order or requisition they 
must preserve as the authority for such transfer or loan. 

12 70 ..They will issue no articles (timber, timber materials, and 
coal excepted) but by the previous written order of, or upon requi- 
sitions duly approved by, the Commanding Officer of the yard. . 
These requisitions or orders must specify the appropriation, and the 
object for which the articles are wanted ; and when they are to be 
drawn from an appropriation different from that for which they are 
wanted, it must be distinctly stated on the face of the requisition. 
Requisitions for timber, timber materials, and coal, can be made 
semi-monthly, to cover the quantities which may have been used, 
condemned, or transferred, during the preceding half month. 

12 71. .They will deliver articles to vessels in commission upon 
requisitions, when signed by the Commanding Officer of the vessel, 
approved by the senior officer present in command of such vessels, 
and by the Commanding Officer of the yard, taking receipts, as 
directed in the next following paragraph. 

1272 ..They will take receipts for all articles delivered upon the 
requisitions themselves, and preserve them as vouchers for their 
expenditures, and also upon invoices prepared in triplicate, one of 
which they will leave for the use and government of the officer re- 
ceipting for the same. They shall give credit to the proper objects, 
and charge themselves on the books with all surplus stores that may 
have been required for any object and returned to them again as not 
having been wanted. 

1273. .They will examine all accounts rendered for supplies fur- 
nished, which shall have been duly certified to have passed inspec- 
tion, and, on being satisfied of their accuracy and the reasonable- 
ness of the prices charged, shall receipt the same and send them 
immediately to the Commanding Officer for approval ; but if they 
shall believe any article to be overcharged, or shall discover any 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 195 

Officers in Charge of S fores. 

defect or deficiency, they will call the attention of the Commanding 
Officer to such charge, defect, or deficiency, before receipting for 
the same. 

1274. .After survey shall have been held upon stores returned 
from a ship, they will receive them on store account, excepting such 
as shall have been condemned. When articles recommended for 
repairs are repaired they will credit the vessel with their original 
value, less the cost of repairs. The articles so received may be 
issued to other vessels, by order of the Commandant of the yard, 
when it can be advantageously done ; and these second-handed 
articles must be entered and expended on separate lines from other 
articles. 

12 75.. They will notify the Commanding Officer whenever any 
article of stores may be so nearly expended as to require replenish- 
ing, and when any additional measures may be necessary for the 
proper preservation of articles in their charge. 

12 76 ..When there are any articles in store which may be used 
without impairing efficiency, though not of the precise dimensions, 
form, or quality named in a requisition, they are to be supplied 
in place of those required, to prevent the necessity of open pur- 
chases, unless otherwise specially directed by the Commandant of 
the yard. 

1277. .They shall be responsible for the shipment of all stores 
under their charge from the yard at which they are stationed to other 
places, by such conveyances as may be furnished by the purchasing 
agent or other duly authorized person, and conformably to such 
orders as they may receive upon the subject. Particular attention 
must be paid by them to have all the articles thus to be transported 
delivered by the bills of lading at the precise place to which they 
may have been ordered, and that they are in good shipping order. 
The price, rate, or amount of freight to be paid must be specifically 
inserted in all bills of lading, and not left to the phrase, " according 
to usage." 

1278. .All articles forwarded from the navy yard must be accom- 
panied by a bill or invoice, stating the particular contents of each 
package, the cost of the separate articles, and the appropriation to 
which they belong. 

12 79.. They shall keep their books and make their returns in 



196 REGULATIONS FOE THE 

Time Clerks — Mustering Workmen and Cheek Officers. 

such maimer and at such times as may be prescribed by the Navy 
Department. 

12 80 ..Whenever articles contracted for are, iu consequence of 
the failure of the contractor to furnish them, purchased in open 
market, they will receipt for them accordingly, keeping a record of 
the same, and make a quarterly return to the proper Bureau of the 
excess of cost over that of the contract price. 

1281.. When relieved they shall make a regular transfer of all 
stores on hand to their successors. 

Section 20. — Time Clerks. 

1282 . . The Time Clerks of the yard are responsible for the proper 
" mustering of the men, and for making correct returns of their time 
and the pay allowed them. 

1283 . . They must be present, duly prepared, precisely at the times 
prescribed for mustering the workmen, and then commence the mus- 
ters. They are to make out, semi-monthly, the pay-rolls by which the 
workmen are to be paid the wages they have earned, and these con- 
taining the names of the workmen, the number of days' work each 
has pert'oi med, the class to which each belongs, the rate of pay estab- 
lished by the Commandant for each class, the amount due to each 
individual, the whole amount chargeable to each appropriation, and 
marginal notes of all extra work performed, are to be certified by 
them as correct in every particular. They are also to make out, 
monthly, a copy or transcript of the last two semi-monthly pay- 
rolls, which is to be signed by themselves, and then approved and 
forwarded by the Commandant to the Chief of the appropriate 
Bureau. 

Section 21. — Mustering Workmen and Check Officers. 

1284 . . The mustering of workmen is to commence twenty minutes 
before the bell rings in the morning and at noon. The moment the 
men are mustered they must proceed at once to the place of work, 
ready to begin the moment the bell tolls the hour of labor at morn 
and noon. No workman is to leave his work until the bell rings to 
knock off. Foremen of workmen will be held responsible that these 
orders are complied with. 



NAYY OF THE UNITED STATES. 197 

Purchasing Agents at Shore Stations. 

1285 . .A Check Officer, who is to be a commissioned officer of the 
line, is to be present at each mustering office or station whenever 
a muster takes place, and, with a verified copy of the roll used 
thereat, he is to note, as the roll is called, the presence or absence 
of each individual, and to enter the name of any new man, not 
already on the roll, presenting himself to be received by due au- 
thority. Immediately after the muster has ended, he is to com- 
pare his roll with that of the mustering clerk, and if any disagree- 
ment should be found, an investigation must take place without 
delay, to ascertain the cause of the discrepancy and correct the error. 
The rolls kept by Check Officers, when filled, are to be returned by 
them to the Commandant's office, and there filed for reference. In 
case of a deficiency of officers to serve as just mentioned, the Com- 
mandant is to direct as many of the clerks or writers already em- 
ployed in the yard as may be necessary to act in their stead, and 
they are to do so in addition to the ordinary duties exacted of them. 

Secteox 22. — Purchasing Agents at Shore Stations. 

1286. .Ail requisitions for stores will be approved by the Com- 
mandant of the navy yard, and those for articles not under contract 
will be made upon the Purchasing Agent, who will procure them 
and' be responsible that they are forthcoming, at the lowest market 
price and of the best quality, subject to the usual inspection at the 
navy yard before being received. If articles are to be selected, the 
person to select them will call upon the Purchasing Agent for such 
instructions as he may have to give, and when the articles are ob- 
tained, the Commandant will satisfy himself of the correctness of 
the bills in all respects before approving them. This order will not 
apply to articles specially ordered by the Department or Bureaus. 
All requisitions for stores contracted for will be made on the con- 
tractor directly. 

1287 ..Open purchases will not be made unless the requisition 
has the aijproval of the proper Bureau. 

1288 ..Whenever it becomes necessary to purchase articles con- 
tracted for in open market, in consequence of the failure of the 
contractor to furnish them, the requisition will be made on the 
Purchasing Agent, and will state upon its face: " There is required 



198 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Purchasing Agents at Shore Stations. 

to be purchased, in open market, for immediate use, to supply de- 
ficiencies under the contract of," (here state the contractor's name,) 

" dated , the following articles, which must conform in quality 

as near to the contract as practicable." The bills must be certified 
by the Purchasing Agent thus: "The above-named articles were 
purchased at the lowest market prices, in open market, for imme- 
diate use, to supply deficiencies under the contract of — , dated 

." The Purchasing Agent will keep a record of these pur- 
chases, showing the aggregate amount thereof, to be returned to $he 
respective Bureaus quarterly. 

1289 . . He will procure all freight or transportation of articles not 
specially provided for by the Bureaus, on the requisitions of the 
Commandant of the yard, and will be responsible for the efficient 
means as well as the proper rate of freight or terms of transporta- 
tion. When it becomes necessary to send drafts of men from one 
naval station to another, lie will, upon the order of the Commandant, 
or senior officer present, furnish the necessary means of transporta- 
tion. 

1290.. He will certify on all bills for purchases in open market, 
and for freight and transportation made or procured by him, that 
the prices are the lowest market rates. 

1291.. If he shall send articles from one place to another for the 
navy, particular attention must be paid to make them deliverable 
by the charter-party, bill of lading, or other agreement, at the pre- 
cise place where they may be specially required, and a particular 
rate of freight be inserted, and not left " according to usage." The 
number of lay days, and the amount of daily demurrage after they 
shall have expired, must be explicitly stated in the charter-party 
and bill of lading. 

1292.. Disbursing Agents and Paymasters at shore stations will 
keep their deposits with the nearest Assistant Treasurers, except 
those stationed at Washington, who will keep their deposits with 
the Treasurer of the United States. 

1293. -They shall have no private interest, directly or indirectly, 
in the supply of any article which it may be their duty to procure 
for the navy. The practice, by inexperienced officers, of giving 
certificates to persons with whom they have had trading dealings, 
or to inventors whose works they may have superficially examined, 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 199 

Pur chasing Agents at Shore Stations. 

being deemed prejudicial to the true interests of the service, it is 
directed that hereafter no such certificates or recommendations be 
given by any person attached to the Navy Department within the 
United States. 

1294 . . They are to make no sale of articles belonging to the United 
States, nor any purchases, nor incur any public expense, without 
the sanction of the senior officer upon the station, the Commanding 
Officer of the navy yard, the Navy Department, or one of the Bureaus 
thereof. 

12 9 5.. They shall pay no bills for articles furnished, or services 
rendered to navy yards, or vessels under the control of the Com- 
manding Officer of the yard, without the previous approval of that 
officer; nor any bills for articles furnished, or services rendered, 
directly to vessels in commission, without the certificate of the 
Commander of the vessel, and the approval of the senior officer in 
command of the station, unless sanctioned by the Navy Depart- 
ment. 

12 9 6.. They will not pay bills under one appropriation from any 
money belonging to another appropriation, without the express 
sanction of the Secretary of the Navy ; and whenever money shall 
be so transferred they shall note it particularly in their next return. 

1297 ..Their requisitions upon the Department and Bureaus for 
money must be made under the specific heads of appropriation, 
and those upon the Bureaus must be accompanied by triplicates of 
the bills for the payment of which they are intended. 

1298 ..They shall make monthly returns to the Navy Depart- 
ment of all moneys received, expended, and remaining on hand, 
under each appropriation, in such form as may be prescribed. These 
returns must be made out and forwarded within ten days after the 
expiration of each month, unless otherwise directed by the Secretary 
of the Treasury under the act approved July 17, 1862. 

1299 .-Whenever they shall be authorized by the Secretary of 
the Navy to make advances of pay to officers bound on a cruise, 
it shall be the duty of the Paymaster of the vessel to iurnish 
him, as his guide, a correct list signed by himself and approved 
by the Commanding Officer, of all the officers entitled to an ad- 
vance of pay, which list must exhibit their names, rank, and yearly 
pay. 



200 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Inspectors, etc. — Commanding Officers of Naval Stations. 

Section 23. — Inspectors at Navy Yards and Naval Stations. 

1300 ..Inspectors are charged with grave duties, and they will 
he held to a very strict accountability for the reception of any in- 
ferior articles. Under the direction of the appropriate Bureau they 
will provide their offices with facilities for testing the purity and 
quality of all articles which are offered for reception at their sta- 
tions ; where more accurate determinations are required, the proper 
Bureau will authorize scientific analyses. Every Inspector will keep 
a book, which shall he an official register of his examinations of 
articles offered for delivery ; it will contain the names of the con- 
tractors or vendors, the articles passed or rejected, with the dates 
of passage or rejection, and the daily indorsement of the Inspector. 
The rejected articles will he placed by themselves, and the Com- 
mandant will cause them to he removed from the yard within forty- 
eight hours after rejection, or report to the proper Bureau when such 
immediate removal is impracticable. On the last day of every 
month, Inspectors, whether regularly or specially charged with such 
duties, will make an abstract report of all their transactions, under 
this regulation, to the respective Bureaus, and the Chiefs of the dif- 
ferent Bureaus will be vigilant in perfecting a rigid and impartial 
system of inspection of all articles furnished, either under contract 
or open purchase, and will require reports of all articles rejected, 
with the names of the persons offering them, and the original analy- 
ses in cases where analyses have been made. Every article of sup- 
ply for the navy must be thoroughly inspected before reception? 
and every officer charged with this duty of examination, whether 
a regular Inspector, or specially detailed, for the occasion, will 
make out and forward his reports in accordance with these instruc- 
tions. 

Section 24. — Commanding Officers of J$aval Stations. 

1301 --Commanding officers of naval stations will conform to the 
regulations for Commandants of navy yards, so far as they may be 
applicable. Annapolis, League Island, New London, Sackett's Har- 
bor, Mound City, and New Orleans, are referred to under the head of 
naval stations. 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 201 

When Embarked. 

ARTICLE XXIII. 
Marines. 

Section 1. — When Embarked. 

1302.. Whenever instructions are given to the Commandant of 
the marine corps to prepare a guard for a vessel going into commis- 
sion, he will immediately cause the proper number of officers and 
men to be detailed and kept in readiness for embarkation. 
* 1303 ..When a vessel is ready for the reception of the marines, 
the Commanding Officer of the station will direct the Commanding 
Marine Officer, whose duty it shall be to have sent to the designated 
place of embarkation the detachment which may have been pre- 
viously ordered for such vessel. 

13 04 ..When marines are received on board a vessel they are to 
be entered separately on her books as part of the complement, or as 
supernumeraries, as the case may require, and are to be in all re- 
spects upon the same footing as the seamen with regard to provis- 
ions and short allowances. 

1305.. The senior marine officer shall report daily in writing to 
the Commander of the vessel the state of the guard. 

1306 ..The marines are not to be diverted from their appropriate 
duties, or called upon to coal ship, or work as mechanics, except in 
case ol emergency. 

1307.. They may be furnished by the Paymaster with clothing 
and small stores when the Commanding Marine Officer shall certify 
that they require them, and the Commander of the vessel approves 
the issue. 

1308 ..The store-room for marine clothing shall be under the 
charge of the Senior Marine Officer, and he shall keep the key of it. 
He will report its condition daily to the Executive Officer, at such 
hour as the Commander shall appoint. 

1309.. The Commanding Marine Officer is to have charge of, and 
will be accountable for, the arms, accoutrements, and clothing be- 
longing to the marines, and he will be careful to have the whole 
preserved in the best possible manner. He will report any injury 
that may result to them from the neglect or misconduct of any per- * 
son, that the amount may be recovered from him. 



202 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

When Embarked. 

1310. A detachment of marines, on joining a vessel of war for 
sea service, will always be accompanied by the officers who are at- 
tached to it. 

1311 ..They will be exercised in the manual of arms, and dnties 
of the soldier, and at the great gnns of the vessel by their officers, 
at such times and places as the Commander may appoint. 

1312.. As occasions may arise when it may become necessary to 
employ marines at the great guns, they shall be instructed as full 
gun's crews by their own officers, and also may be assigDed as parts 
of ordinary gun's crews under other officers of divisions. 

1313 . .When not on guard, or on duty as sentinels, they are to be 
subject to the orders of the sea officers in the same manner as the 
seamen. 

1314.. All general orders to sentinels shall pass through the 
Marine Officer. The sentinels on the spar deck may receive special 
orders from the Officer of the Deck when an emergency may require 
it ; but should they be of an important character the latter shall 
inform the Executive Officer. 

1315 . . Any misbehavior of the marines on guard duty, or on duty 
as sentinels, is to be reported to the Officer of the Deck, and by him 
made known to the Senior Marine Officer on board, who will report 
the same to the Executive Officer. 

1316 . . No officer of the Navy of inferior relative rank shall give or- 
ders to a marine officer, unless such navy officer be at the time in com- 
mand of the vessel, or be the Executive Officer, or Officer of the Deck. 

1317.. The Commanding Marine Officer will be particularly at- 
tentive to the comfort and cleanliness of his men, as well as their 
soldier-like appearance and efficiency. He will inspect the clothing 
at least ouce a month, and report to the Commanding Officer of the 
vessel in case of any loss or abuse. 

1318.. If repairs of the arms and accoutrements become neces- 
sary, the Marine Officer will apply to the Executive Officer for such 
assistance as can be afforded. 

1319 ..The Marine Officer, with the approval of the Commander 
of the vessel, may reduce non-commissioned officers for misconduct 
or incompetency, and make promotions to supply vacancies ; should 
no Marine Officer be attached to the vessel the Commanding Officer 
may order such reductions and promotions. 



NAYY OF THE UNITED STATES. 203 

Enlistments — When at the Navy Yards. 

1320.. The clothing accounts, muster-rolls, and such other ac- 
counts as may be directed by the Commandant of the marine corps, 
will be kept by the officer or non-commissioned officer in charge of 
the guard of any vessel, who will forward them, through the Com- 
mander of the vessel, to headquarters. 

1321 . . When there shall be more than one Marine Officer attached 
to a vessel one shall at all times be on board for duty, unless upon 
very particular occasions, to be judged of by the Commanding Officer 
of the vessel. 

1322.. When a vessel is to be put out of commission, the Marine 
Officer, with the guard, shall remain on board until all the officers 
and crew are detached, and the ship regularly turned over to the 
officers of the navy yard or station. 

Section 2. — Enlistments. 

1323 ..The regulations for the recruiting service of the Army of 
the United States will be applied to the recruiting service of the 
Marine Corps, as far as practicable. 

Section 3. — When at the Navy Yards. 

1324.. The marine detachment serving within a navy yard is to 
be subject to the orders of the Commandant of the yard, but no part 
of the detachment shall be relieved or withdrawn therefrom except 
by order of the Commandant of the marine corps, approved by the 
Secretary of the Navy. All such orders shall pass through the Com- 
mandant of the yard. 

1325 . . When a Marine Officer is ordered to relieve another officer 
commanding the marines within a navy yard, he shall, on his arrival, 
report himself to the Commandant of the yard. Marine Officers join- 
ing a navy yard will report to the Commandant and Commanding 
Marine Officer. 

1326.. The Commanding Marine Officer within a navy yard will 
cause to be posted such sentinels for the protection of the yard and 
vessels in ordinary as may be directed by the Commandant of the 
yard. He will make to the Commandant of the yard a daily report 
of the amount and disposition of the force under his command, 



204 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

When at the Navy Yards. 

specifying, by name, officers who may have joined in the previous 
twenty-four hours. 

132 7 ..He will, unless the Commandant shall think proper to 
issue it himself, transmit every morning, in writing and under seal, 
to the Commandant of the yard, and to such other officers and such 
only as he may designate, the countersign for the ensuing night. 

1328 ..The police and internal government of marines, when in 
barracks within or without a navy yard, and their instruction shall 
be under the direction of the Commanding Marine Officer, with the 
approval of the Commandant of the yard. 

1329 . .Non-commissioned officers serving within a navy yard may 
be reduced by the Commanding Marine Officer, with the approval 
of the Commandant of the yard, and he may promote to fill vacancies, 
with the sanction of the Commandant of the yard. 

1330 ..Marine Officers belonging to a navy yard desiring leave 
of absence will conform to the general rules of the Navy on the sub- 
ject. The customary liberty to non-commissioued officers, musicians, 
and privates may be granted at the discretion of the Commanding 
Marine Officer, with the approval of the Commandant of the yard. 

1331 -.All official communications to and from officers and en- 
listed men of the Marine Corps serving at navy yards shall be for- 
warded through the Commanding Officer of the yard. 

1332 ..Deficiencies in the complements of marines in vessels on 
the eve of sailing may, by order of the Commandant of the yard, be 
supplied by the Commanding Marine Officer, and the circumstances 
of the case reported, without delay, to the Commandant of the corps 
by the Commanding Officer of the marines, and by the Commandant 
of the navy yard to the Navy Department. 

1333 . . All offenses or neglects which may be committed by marines 
as sentinels, or in violation of orders given by the Commandant of 
the yard, must be reported to him. Other offenses which may be 
committed by marines, either in barrack inclosures or elsewhere, 
shall be reported to the Commanding Marine Officer. 

1334 ..Marines, when stationed at or employed within a navy 
yard, are to conform to all regulations which may be issued by the 
Commandant thereof for its government and security. 

1335 ..The exercises and formation of marines at parades, re- 
views, inspections, escorts, guard mountings, and funerals, chal- 



NAYY OF THE UNITED STATES. 205 

Recruiting. 

lenges of persons, police and regulations for camp and garrison 
duties, and salutes, will be the same as those established, or which 
may be hereafter established, for the Army. 

1336 ..When marines are transferred from one station to another 
it shall be the duty of the officer transferring them to forward their 
returns forthwith to the officer to whom they are transferred. 

1337. -It is the duty of officers serving with detachments to assist 
their Commander in making out rolls, reports, and returns ; keep- 
ing the books of the detachment, attending to issues, and to every- 
thing connected with the welfare of the command. The Commander 
will see that their assistance is rendered. 

1338 -.The officer of the day will inspect the provisions daily 
issued to the troops, and if not of good quality will report the same 
to the Commanding Officer. He will also inspect the different meals, 
to see that the rations are properly cooked and served. 

1339 ..Officers and soldiers, in garrison, will wear the prescribed 
uniform of the corps. 

1340 -.When a deserter is apprehended, or surrenders himself, 
the officer in whose charge he is will immediately report the same 
to the headquarters of the corps, and to the Commanding Officer of 
the navy yard or station from whence he deserted. 

1341 ..The Commanding Marine Officer at a navy yard will have 
a daily drill of one hour when the weather will permit. 

ARTICLE XXIV. 

Recruiting* and Receiving Vessels. 

Section 1. — Recruiting. 

1342 ..As the appointment of officers to attend to the recruiting 
service is intended not only to hasten the collection of recruits for 
the Navy but to guard against the enlistment of improper, unsound, 
or incompetent persons, strict and constant attention to the duties 
of the rendezvous is to be given, the hours of which are to be from 
9 a. m. to 3 p. m., and later, when emergencies require it. 

1343 . .The junior officers who may be ordered irpon this duty are 
intended as assistants to the Commanding Officer, and not to act as 



206 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Becruiting. 

his substitutes, except iu cases where he is unable to attend by rea- 
son of sickness, or when absent with the sanction of the Depart- 
ment ; under all other circumstances he will be expected to attend 
daily at the rendezvous, and to personally question the persons 
offering to enlist, examine into their qualifications, and determine 
whether they may enter or not, and in what capacity or rating. 

1344 . .Boys shall not be enlisted under fourteen years of age, nor 
under four feet eight inches in height, even as apprentices. No one 
shall be received under the age of eighteen without the consent of 
his parent or guardian, if any such can be found. If the evidence 
of the parent or guardian cannot be obtained, the doubt is to be 
noted on the descriptive list, and no advance money will be paid ; 
the required clothing and bedding being supplied on board the re- 
ceiving vessel. No person shall be entered as landsman over the 
age of thirty-three, unless he possesses some mechanical trade, nor 
shall he be entered after thirty-four, even though possessing a trade, 
without special authority of the Department. No person shall be 
entered as ordinary seaman unless he shall have been two years at 
sea, nor as seaman unless he shall have been four years at sea, be- 
fore the mast, and passed a satisfactory examination. The recruit 
may be required to declare on oath, in presence of the Command- 
ing Officer of the rendezvous or vessel, that he makes a true state- 
ment of age, to the best of his knowledge and belief, unless he 
proves his age in some other manner. 

1345. -Except by special authority from the Navy Department, 
no person shall be enlisted for the naval service unless the Com- 
manding Officer of the rendezvous or vessel, and the Medical Officer 
required to examine him physically, shall both pronounce favorably 
as to his fitness. 

1346 .Every one enlisting at a naval rendezvous is, before sign- 
ing the shipping articles, to take the oath of allegiance prescribed 
by an act of Congress approved August 6, 1861, and to sign it. 

1347 . .Every one enlisting at a naval rendezvous who has already 
been in the service of the United States must produce his discharge 
therefrom, in order to guard against shipping a person who was dis- 
charged dishonorably. Should it have been lost, and time will per- 
mit, the Department can be applied to for information as to the na- 
ture of the discharge with which the party was furnished. In all 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 207 

Recruiting, 

cases of doubt or suspicion as to the kind of discharge given to the 
individual, the Department must be consulted, and the communica- 
tion be addressed to the Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting. 

1348 ..Whenever a person is enlisted on board ship, or elsewhere 
than at a rendezvous, a complete descriptive list must be made out 
and returned quarterly, with the shipping articles, signed by the 
Recruiting Officer and the Surgeon. The form No. 13, Appendix, 
will be used, substituting the name of vessel or place for " Naval 
Rendezvous,*' and quarter in place of the word " week." The re- 
capitulation is not required, but che certificate at the foot of it is 
to be adopted, leaving out the second line of the second paragraph, 
viz : "also the names, &c, &c, who have been rejected at the re- 
ceiving ship." Printed blank forms will always be forwarded with 
the muster-rolls and shipping articles. 

1349.. The shipping articles are to be read to every one about to 
enlist, by a Commissioned Officer of the rendezvous, in order that 
such person may fully understand the nature and extent of the ob- 
ligation he is about to assume. 

1350.. No person in a state of intoxication will be submitted to 
examination, nor shall any person known to have been convicted of 
an infamous crime be received into the naval service. 

1351. .No person on enlisting is to be rated as a petty officer, or 
higher than a seaman, unless he be a fireman. 

1352 ..No machinists, firemen, or coal-heavers shall be shipped 
as such until they have passed a satisfactory examination by one or 
more Medical Officers of the navy in respect to their health and 
vigor, nor shall machinists or firemen be so shipped until they have 
passed a satisfactory examination by one or more Engineer Officers 
of the navy upon their ability to manage fires properly with differ- 
ent kinds of fuel, and to use skillfully smith's tools in the repair and 
preservation of steam machinery and boilers. 

1353.. If persons should be enlisted by authority of the Depart- 
ment, to perform particular duties with complaints or injuries which, 
in the opinion of the Medical Officer and the Commander of the navy 
yard or staion, will not interfere with the proper discharge of these 
duties, their condition must be fully described and carefully noted 
on all the descriptive lists containing their names, in order that 
no improper claims for pensions may be afterward allowed. 



208 REGULATIONS FOE, THE 

Recruiting. 

1354. .The Commanding Officer of a rendezvous, on enlisting a 
person for the service, should request the surety for the recruit, or 
the recruit himself, if he has not received any money, to repair, with- 
out delay, on board the receiving ship, where good naval clothing, 
appropriate to the season, will be furnished him by the Paymaster, 
and deducted from his advance, to be then paid to 'the recruit. 
Clothing sufficient only for cleanliness and proper appearance should 
be furnished the recruit. Thus his whole advance will not be ap- 
propriated for clothing, and a quantity of unnecessary articles 
stowed in his bag, to be stolen or lost. When finally transferred to 
a sea-going ship his wardrobe can be amply supplied there, and his 
clothing properly and cheaply altered or made by shipmates, if un- 
able to do so himself. 

1355. .Each enlisted person delivered on board a receiving or 
other vessel intended to receive recruits must be accompanied by 
both a transcript list and a descriptive list, (Forms Nos. 11 and 12.) 

1356. .The transcript list must set forth in full the name of the 
recruit ; the year, month, and day of his enlistment ; the term or 
period for which he enlisted; whether he enlisted for general or 
special service; the date of the honorable discharge under which he 
may have re-enlisted, together with the name of the vessel from 
which such discharge was received, and the rating he held on board 
of her when discharged ; his rating under present enlistment ; his 
wages per month under the same ; the wages advanced or bounty 
paid to him, if any, at the rendezvous, and the name of his surety, 
if any was exacted or given. 

1357. -The descriptive list must set forth in full the name of the 
recruit, his previous naval service, and the capacity in which he 
last served ; his x>lace of birth, age, and trade or occupation ; the 
color of his eyes, hair, and complexion ; his height, and the perma- 
nent marks or scars about his person. 

1358. .The transcript and descriptive lists are both to be pre- 
pared at the rendezvous, under the direction of its Commanding 
Officer, to be signed by him or by the officer serving in his stead, 
and to be addressed to the Commanding Officer of the vessel to 
which the recruit is sent ; and a copy of each is to be duly and care- 
fully recorded and retained at the rendezvous. 

1359 ..Should a person holding an honorable discharge prove 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 209 

Beer uiting. 

physically disqualified, it will be so written by the Recruiting 
Officer on the face of the discharge, and such discharge shall not 
entitle the holder to be received under it. 

1360.. The Recruiting Officer will write on the face of the honor- 
able discharge, over his official signature, the date of re-enlistment. 
After the reception on board the receiving ship, of the person re- 
enlisted, the Paymaster, also, will write on the face of the honor- 
able discharge, over his official signature, that the three months' pay 
has been credited or paid him, with the date of such credit or pay- 
ment, and the amount thereof. 

1361 ..Should it become necessary or expedient to provide a Re- 
cruiting Officer with money in order to secure men for the service, 
he is not to hold in his possession, at any one time, more than one 
thousand dollars; and therefore, in making his requisitions upon 
the pay agent, he is to govern himself accordingly, and the Com- 
manding Officer of the navy yard or station, before approving them, 
is to satisfy himself as to their propriety. A Recruiting Officer in- 
trusted with public money is to report weekly to the Chief of the 
Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting, and to the Commanding 
Officer of the station, whatever balance he may have on hand. 

1362 . .Recruiting Officers shall make no advance of pay, nor give 
any bounty, except by express orders from the Secretary of the 
Navy, or of the officer under whose orders they may be placed; 
and in all cases of making advances, the amount advanced to 
petty officers, if any such enlistment should be authorized, shall not 
exceed the amount authorized for seamen, and good security is to 
be taken for all advances, until the persons receiving it shall have 
been duly received and mustered on board the receiving vessel, or 
some other vessel of the United States. 

1363. -Recruiting Officers shall not pay any advance or bounty- 
money except to the person duly entitled to receive it ; and they 
must produce his receipt for the same, together with a certificate 
from the Commanding Officer of the receiving or other vessel to 
which the person may be sent, that he was actually received on 
board, before any credit can be allowed them for such advance or 
bounty-money so paid. 

1364 -.Recruiting Officers, when authorized to make advances of 
any sort with their own hands, are to do all in their power to induce 
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210 . REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Recruiting. 

recruits to repair on board the vessels to -which they are to be sent, 
and there receive the amounts in clothing and other 'necessaries. 

1365 . . When recruits are -willing to repair on board the receiving 
vessels, and there receive the requisite clothing and other neces- 
saries, the Recruiting Officers are to notify the Commanding Officers 
of the vessels of the fact, and securities may be dispensed with. 

1366.. Every Commanding Officer of a rendezvous must report, 
every Saturday evening, to the Chief of the Bureau of Equipment 
and Recruiting, the number of recruits he has enlisted during the 
week ending at the close of the rendezvous on that day, specifying 
particularly their names ; the dates and periods of their enlistment ; 
their ratings; whether they were enlisted for general service or 
coast survey ; the dates of the honorable discharges under which 
they may have re-enlisted, together with the names of the vessels 
from which said discharges were received, and the ratings they 
held on board of them when discharged ; their previous naval ser- 
vices, and the capacities respectively in which they last served ; 
their places of birth, ages, and' trades or occupations ; the color of 
their eyes, hair, and complexions ; their height, and the permanent 
marks or scars about their persons, according to Form No. 13 ; and 
every such Commanding Officer must also report on the same day 
of each week, and up to the same time, to the Commanding Officer 
of the navy yard or station, the number of each rating of persons 
he has enlisted in the course of it, according to Form No. 21. 

1367 ..Each vessel of the Navy shall be furnished, by the Com- 
manding Officer of the navy yard or station from which she departs 
on a cruise, with a sufficient number of printed copies of the pre- 
scribed shipping articles, and with seventy-five printed forms of the 
descriptive list for every two hundred men composing her crew; 
and each Commanding Officer of a vessel on foreign service, or in 
the United States where there is no established naval rendezvous, 
may enlist seamen, firemen, coal-heavers, and persons of inferior 
rating, to fill vacancies which may exist in her complement, pro- 
vided the rules concerning enlistments at rendezvous be adhered to, 
so far as they can be made applicable, and that the advance-money 
is not to exceed one month's pay, unless by permission of the De- 
partment. The term for persons so enlisted may be for a less period 
than three years, and so as to correspond wdth the time, as nearly as 



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Receiving Vessels. 

practicable, at which, the rest of the crew generally will probably be 
discharged. A Paymaster will be appointed to each naval rendezvous. 

Section 2. — Receiving Vessels. 

1368 ..The Commander of a vessel receiving recruits will take 
charge of, and receipt for daily, to the officer sending them, all such 
as may be duly forwarded ; and if, after an examination severally 
by himself and the Medical Officer, they shall be found fit for the 
service, he shall cause them to be regularly entered upon her books, 
and paid, under the restrictions provided in the preceding section, 
the advance-money allowed. He is also to receipt to the Recruit- 
ing Officer for the descriptive lists directed to accompany the re- 
cruits, and to direct the Paymaster of his vessel to receipt to that 
officer for the transcript lists he is ordered to furnish, and to certify 
to him that the amounts of money against the recruits, as exhibited 
by his accounts, have been duly charged to them respectively. The 
recruit will be carefully inspected to see that he conforms to the 
descriptive list accompanying him, in order that no person may be 
delivered on board the receiving vessel who had not previously 
passed examination at the rendezvous. 

1369 ..No person is to be considered as finally shipped in the 
naval service until he shall have passed medical inspection on board 
the receiving ship where he is to be delivered. If this examination 
should develop any cause why the recruit should not be accepted, 
the Commander of the receiving vessel wull report the case to the 
Commandant of the navy yard or station, who will forthwith order 
a survey by two or three medical officers, and, as far as practicable, 
senior to the Medical Officer of the rendezvous where the primary 
examination was held ; and if the recruit is found unfit for service, 
the objections are to be fully stated by the board of survey, where- 
upon the recruit shall not be received. The order for survey and 
medical report shall, in all such cases, be transmitted to the Bureau 
of Equipment and Recruiting. 

1370. .The descriptive lists accompanying recruits are to be care- 
fully verified, under the direction of the Commanding Officer of the 
vessel to which they are sent, and, should discrepancies be detected, 
he is to notify the Commanding Officer of the rendezvous of all the 
facts attending them without delay. 



212 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Receiving Vessels. 

1371 . . The descriptive lists are to be kept by the Executive Officer, 
who is to have a cox3y of them recorded in a book for the purpose, to 
be retained on board for reference when necessary. 

13 7 2.. Descriptive and clothes lists must always accompany re- 
cruits whenever they are transferred from one vessel to another, 
and the name of the vessel to which they are transferred, preceded 
by the words " transferred to," must be noted on the descriptive 
lists, as well as a statement of their iDrobable qualifications ; and all 
such transfers must be duly noted on the muster-book of the vessel 
making them. 

1373.. The transcript lists are to be kept by the Paymaster, who 
is to have a copy of them recorded in a book for the purpose, to be 
retained on board for reference when necessary. 

13 74.. Accounts, specifying the sums paid and balance due, and 
transcript lists, both signed by the Commanding Officer and Pay- 
master, must always accompany recruits whenever they are trans- 
ferred from one vessel to another. 

1375 . .The Commander will have the clothing and bedding of all 
recruits carefully examined and marked with the ship's number, 
and lists of the same taken when they are first received on board, 
and take all measures for their preservation and safe-keeping. No 
recruit will be allowed to bring on board any other outside clothing 
than that prescribed by the uniform regulations. 

13 76.. Neither clothing nor small stores are to be issued to re- 
cruits on board a receiving vessel, without the written order of the 
Commanding Officer ; and this must be preserved by the Paymaster 
as a voucher, in case a person to whom an issue of them was made 
should die or desert Avhile in debt to the United States. 

1377 ..The Commander of the receiving vessel is to adopt proper 
precautions to prevent desertions, and is not to allow any recruit to 
go on shore on liberty without the consent of the Commanding 
Officer of the station. 

1378. -Receiving vessels shall be completely equipped and every 
means furnished for exercising the recruits who may be on board. 
The Commanding Officer will, under the direction of the Command- 
ing Officer of the navy yard or station, have them exercised at the 
guns, small-arms, heaving the lead, &c, sails, pulling in boats, ex- 
ercise of the boats' howitzers, and daily exercise of yards ; and he 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 213 

Receiving Vessels. 

will report. to tlie Department at the end of each month the exer- 
cises had during the month. Particular attention will be paid to 
the instruction of landsmen and boys. 

13 79 ..The recruits onboard a receiving vessel are not to be em- 
ployed upon duties unconnected with that vessel, except by the 
order or sanction of the Commander of the station or yard ; and 
when employed in aid of the force in navy yards for rigging or 
equipping vessels, or for any other service, he will see that they are 
placed under the direction of proper navy officers. Unless for some 
special service, he will not authorize the employment of the recruits 
in a navy yard upon other duties than such as are immediately con- 
nected with the equipment of vessels or the preparation of their 
outfits and stores. 

1380 .-No recruit intended for general service is to be rated a 
petty officer while on board a receiving vessel, as that authority is 
to be exercised by the Commanding Officer of the sea-going vessel 
to which he may be transferred. 

1381 ..When the Commanding Officer of a receiving vessel is 
directed to transfer men to a sea-going vessel, if there be more than 
a sufficient number of any class on board to comply with the order, 
he is to make an impartial selection, having reference to the unex- 
pired terms of service and the station on which the vessel is to 
serve, and sending a fair proportion of such as may be supposed 
qualified for petty officers, of useful mechanics, and persons of 
foreign birth and colored persons. 

1382 ..When men are to be drafted from the receiving vessel to 
a sea-going vessel, the selection shall be made by the Commander 
of the receiving vessel; and no officer, whatever may be his rank, 
shall be permitted to visit the receiving vessel and make selections 
for the vessel which he is to command. 

1383 ..In case of complaint or dissatisfaction as to the character 
or condition of the draft on the part of the Commander of the vessel 
to which men are transferred from a receiving vessel, it shall be the 
duty of the Commander of the navy yard or station to order a sur- 
vey, on which he will decide the case ; but no men are to be re- 
turned and exchanged except for good causes, and by his written 
order, in which the reasons for the same will be expressed. 

1384 . . Should authority be given to enlist men for a particular 



214 REGULATIONS ¥OU THE 

Surveys. 

vessel, such men will not be detailed for any other vessel, except 
by order of the Department. 

1385 ..When persons who have entered at the rendezvous are 
brought on board the receiving vessel, care will be taken that they 
are in a proper condition to be received ; and if any person, when 
brought on board, should be so much intoxicated as to require re- 
straint, he shall not be received until he becomes sober. 

1386 ..If, between the time of a person being entered at the 
rendezvous and his appearance on board the receiving or other ship, 
he should receive an injury which, in the opinion of the Inspecting 
and Medical Officer of the receiving ship, unfits him for the service, 
he shall not be received. 

1387 ..The Commander and other officers attached to the vessel 
designated to receive recruits are to conform to the general regula- 
tions for other vessels in commission, as far as they are applicable, 
and are to live on board, unless specially exempted by the Secre- 
tary of the Navy, in the same manner as though under orders for 
sea service. 

1388. -A return for each week, ending on Saturday, signed by 
the Commanding Officer of the receiving vessel and the Paymaster 
attached to her, showing all the changes with regard to recruits 
that have taken place in the course of it, whether resulting from 
deaths, desertions, discharges, apprehensions, surrenders, or trans- 
fers, is to be made to the Chief of the Bureau of Equipment and 
Recruiting, agreeably to Form No. 14, through the Commanding 
Officer of the navy yard or station. 

ARTICLE XXV. 
Surveys. 

1389 . . Orders for surveys by officers of the Navy shall be made 
as follows : 

1390 . . By Chiefs of Bureaus, on all articles in their respective 
departments reported as unfit for use at navy yards, at naval sta- 
tions, or elsewhere on shore, Avithin the United States, except in 
cases of exigency, when such surveys may be ordered by Command- 
ants of navy yards or of naval stations, as the case may be, who 
will report the circumstances immediately to the proper Bureau. 



NATS" OF THE UNITED STATES. 215 

Surveys. 

1391 .-By Commandants of navy yards, all medical surveys on 
persons in hospitals or elsewhere within the limits of their com- 
mands, and such other surveys as pertain to their duties. 

1392 . . By Commandants of naval stations, all medical surveys on 
persons in hospitals or elsewhere within the limits of their com- 
mands, and such other surveys as pertain to their duties. 

1393 ..By Port Admirals, Commanders-in-Chief, Commanders of 
divisions or of squadrons, Senior Officers present, and Commanders 
of single ships, all surveys of whatever nature afloat, except such as 
fall within the province of Commandants of navy yards and of 
naval stations. 

1394 ..The navy yards referred to are those at Portsmouth, New 
Hampshire ; at Boston, Massachusetts ; at Brooklyn, Long Island ; 
at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; at Washington, D. C. ; at Norfolk, 
Virginia ; at Pensacola, Florida ; and at Mare Island, California. 

1395 ..The naval stations referred to are those at Annapolis, 
Maryland ; at League Island, Pennsylvania ; at Sackett's Harbor, 
New York ; at Mound City, Illinois ; at New London, Connecticut ; 
at New Orleans, Louisiana ; and at such other places as it may be 
found expedient hereafter to establish them. 

1396 ..Whenever articles are received under a contract or pur- 
chase at a navy yard or station on shore, or received on board ship 
directly from a contractor or furnisher, a proper officer, with the 
master workman under whose direction they are to be used, or the 
officer to whose department they may pertain, are to inspect them 
carefully, in order to guard the government against imposition or 
loss, and his report, in ordinary cases, may be deemed sufficient; 
but if they be in doubt, or their decision be questioned, the Com- 
manding Officer is then to have the inspection or survey made by 
at least three competent persons, of whom the master workman or 
department officer aforesaid is, if practicable, to be one, and their 
decision, when approved by the Commanding Officer, is to be re- 
garded as conclusive. 

139 7 . . All applications for surveys upon articles on ship-board sup- 
posed to be defective or unfit for use, or to be unequal to sample, or 
deficient in quality, must be made in writing, according to the pre- 
scribed form, (No. 19, Appendix,) by the person having charge of the 
same, to his immediate Commanding Officer, and if he deems such 



216 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Surveys. 

survey necessary, he will, if within the limits of a navy yard or 
naval station, transmit the same to the Commandant thereof; if 
under the control of a Port Admiral, to that officer ; if serving in 
a fleet, to the Commanding Officer of the fleet, squadron, or division 
to which he belongs ; otherwise, to the Senior Officer present ; or, if 
acting indep endently, he will order it himself. 

1398 ..Officers who may order surveys upon articles reported as 
defective, or requiring repairs, will, when practicable, select at least 
two commissioned officers for that duty, of a rank proportioned to 
the importance of the survey to be held, so that the United States 
may not be exposed to loss from the inexperience of the surveying- 
officers, and, when it can be done, the officers shall be selected from 
other vessels than those to which the articles may belong. 

1399 . . Surveying officers may call upon the x^erson having charge 
of the articles to be surveyed, or upon any other person, for infor- 
mation which may assist them in making correct statements upon 
the subject they may have been directed to investigate ; and if any 
person shall endeavor to deceive the surveying officers, by know- 
ingly giving false statements, or if the surveying officers shall dis- 
cover, or find reason to suspect any fraud, they shall notice it par- 
ticularly in their report. 

1400. .The report of officers directed to survey articles repre- 
sented to be unfit for service must specify by whose order the survey 
was held, each particular article surveyed, the state in which found, 
and the most proper disposition to be made of it ) and if the articles 
are found to be damaged, or of improper quality, their report must 
further state, if possible, by whom they were furnished, and whether 
the damage or injury was or was not owing to the misconduct or 
neglect of any particular person or persons. Contractor's and in- 
spector's marks must be noted. 

1401 ..When officers are ordered to ascertain the quantity of 
articles they are not to take the account of them from the officer 
who has charge of them, unless it shall be impracticable to make a 
personal examination, or they shall be directed to take the account 
from him by the person ordering the examination, and when the 
quantity of articles shall be so taken, it must be particularly noted 
in their report, with the reasons why it was so taken, and they shall 
state what, if any, articles are found to be defective. 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 217 

Siwveys. 

1402 . . Reports of all surveys, except such as are hereafter pro- 
vided for in this section, shall be made in triplicate, one part of 
which shall he written on the hack of the order, or attached to it, 
and he furnished to the officer who requested the survey, another to 
the Commander of the vessel, and a third shall he transmitted to 
the proper Bureau of the Navy Department, by the officer ordering 
the survey. A copy of the request and of the order shall be made 
upon the duplicate and triplicate reports. 

1403 . . Discrepancies between the marks and contents of packages 
as to quantity or kind are to be determined and reported upon by a 
board of survey. It must embrace the marks of the parties who 
furnished and inspected them. 

1404 . . No stores, provisions, or clothing, are to be thrown over- 
board, unless they are entirely useless, and except the surveying 
officers shall, in their report, represent them as being, in their 
opinion, prejudicial to the health of the ship's company, in which 
case the Commander of the vessel shall cause them to be thrown 
overboard as soon as the report of the survey is duly approved or 
confirmed, and the certificate of one of the surveying officers that 
they were so disposed of is to be attached to the report, but all 
other articles are to be converted to some other use or turned into 
store. All surveys of articles destroyed will contain a descriptive 
list of the articles, with an estimate of their value. 

1405 . .If provisions or stores are so much damaged as to be unfit 
for issue or use on shipboard they may be condemned to be sold, if 
advisable, when in a foreign port. Within the United States such 
damaged stores or provisions are to be returned into store, when 
practicable to do so. 

1406 . . If any officer of the Navy having charge of money, pro- 
visions, or other stores belonging to the United States, shall die, be 
suspended, removed, or otherwise separated from his vessel or sta- 
tion, so as to render it necessary to appoint another person to per- 
form his duties, it shall be immediately reported by his Commander 
to the senior officer present in command, who shall order, in writ- 
ing, a survey to be held by proper officers, and, when practicable, 
in presence of the officer who is to succeed to the charge of the arti- 
cles aforesaid, and the surveying officers shall make out a state- 
ment, in writing, of the amount, quantity, or number, state and 



218 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Surveys. 

condition of such articles, in quadruplicate, and sign the same, and 
transmit them in a report to the officer ordering the survey, one 
copy to he retained by him, and three sent to the officer appointed 
to take charge of the money and stores, two of which he will receipt 
and hand over to the officer relieved, or to the representative of 
the officer, if deceased, one to be retained by him and the other to 
be forwarded to the Navy Department. (See General Order No. 147, 
as to Paymaster. 

1407.. All officers ordered upon surveys are strictly require^ to 
perform that duty with the utmost attention and fidelity, and to 
make their reports with the strictest impartiality, so that, should 
they be called upon, they may be able, conscientiously, to make, 
oath of their correctness. 

1408. .In all reports of surveys involving quantities, they must 
be expressed in writing, and never exclusively in figures. 

1409 ..Whenever any important accident or derangement shall 
occur to the machinery of a steamer there shall be held upon it a 
strict and careful survey, by a board composed of one Line Officer 
and at least two Engineer Officers, who shall report, in writing, the 
nature and extent of the accident or derangement, the cause thereof, 
the probable time of repair, and to whom, if to any one, blame in 
connection therewith is to be attributed. The report is to embrace 
every detail necessary to a complete understanding of the case. The 
order of the survey shall accompany the report, which is to be 
made in duplicate, and forwarded to the Department by the first 
opportunity. 

14 10.. Whenever, in the opinion of the Commanding Officer of a 
vessel, any person attached to her is unfit for service, he shall, if on 
separate or detached service, order a survey to be held upon such 
person by the medical officers of the vessel, and such others as may 
be convenient, not exceeding three, though two will suffice where 
the full number cannot be procured. In extreme cases, the survey 
may be conducted by the Medical Officer of the ship, but if serving 
in squadron the Commanding Officer of the vessel shall report all 
such cases to the officer in command of the squadron or senior officer 
present, who shall order the survey to be held. The Board shall 
examine and report upon such person in accordance with the form 
prescribed by the regulations of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. 



NAYY OF THE UNITED STATES. 219 

Surveys. 

When the person is found unfit for duty, the report shall state the 
general character of the disease or injury, its probable duration, as 
far as can be predicted, and in every case all the facts and circum- 
stances connecting the disease or injury with the performance of 
duty or exposure incident thereto. Medical officers are strictly for- 
bidden to give unofficial certificates of ill health or inability to per- 
form duty, and all such private or unofficial statements will be dis- 
regarded by the Department when officers present themselves for 
the purpose of seeking an extension of leave or change of duty. 
Whenever such person may be reported unfit for duty, and the sur- 
vey is approved by the officer ordering it, he shall be disposed of as 
promptly as possible, in the manner recommended by the board, 
and in. case of discharge from service, without reference to the state 
of his account. 

1411.. All reports of surveys, on account of temporary disability, 
shall be made out in duplicate, and forwarded, through the proper 
channel, to the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. 

1412 ..Besides the surveys above directed, the Commander of a 
vessel, when practicable, shall appoint, at the commencement of 
each regular quarter, to serve to the end of it, three suitable 
officers, to whom, as a continued board of survey, the Paymaster, 
or any other officer responsible for stores, shall refer, through the 
senior of the three, either verbally or in writing, all such articles 
in his department as he may judge to be unfit for use, or not to 
correspond with their marks in quantity or kind, provided they do 
not exceed in quantity, on any one occasion, the bulk of a package 
of clothing, or, in the case of provisions, two barrels; and this 
board shall survey and pronounce upon said articles, which, with 
the consent of the Commanding Olficer, are to be disposed of as 
recommended. 

1413 . . At the end of the quarter, or earlier if ordered, the board 
is to report in form, and in triplicate, to the Commanding Officer 
for his action and signature, separately for each department, and 
separately, also, in the case of clothing or small stores, upon all the 
articles it has condemned in the course of it, and the disposition 
which has been made of them, in order that these reports may 
answer as authenticated vouchers. 

1414.. Should any of the board die, or be detached during the 



220 REGULATIONS FdK THE 

Pensions. 

quarter, the above report is to be made up to the time of the occur- 
rence, signed by the survivors in one case, who are to append a note 
as to the cause of the absence of more signatures, and by all the 
members in the other. In either event another report is to be made 
at the end of the quarter, if surveys have been held in the mean time.' 

ARTICLE XXVI. 
Pensions. 

1415 . . Commanding Officers, on shore and afloat, will make out 
special reports, addressed to the Secretary of the Navy, of every 
case of death, wounds, injury, or disability occurring in the line of 
duty, to jjersons in the naval service under their command. These 
special reports will be made out before the wounded, injured, or 
disabled person is removed from under the command of the officer 
in question, and, in cases of death, upon its occurrence. 

1416.. These reports will be made in triplicate, and will state 
clearly but briefly the circumstances under which the death, wounds, 
injury, or disability occurred, and distinctly, whether or not in the 
line of duty. The original, duplicate, and triplicate of these re- 
ports, in all cases of death, shall be forwarded through the proper 
channel, and by different opportunities, to the Secretary of the Navy, 
but in cases of disability from wounds, injury, or disease incurred 
in the line of duty, the triplicate shall be given to the person in 
question, as his voucher for a claim for a pension. The descrix)tive 
list of all enlisted persons shall be accurately entered in these 
rej)orts. 

1417. .Commanding Officers, on shore and afloat, will require, 
from the proper medical officers serving under them, reports, accord- 
ing to form, of every case of death or disability occurring to per- 
sons in the naval service under their command. These reports will 
specify the immediate or remote cause of death, and, in cases of dis- 
ability, the nature and the degree of the disability incurred, and 
will be forwarded with the special report, as above directed, to the 
Secretary of the Navy, in order to furnish evidence as to claims for 
pensions. In all such cases as provided for above, surveys shall not 
be requisite to establish claims for pensions. 



NAYY OF THE UNITED STATES. 221 

Pensions. 

1418. l When any enlisted person in the Navy is received in any 
naval hospital on account of wounds, injuries, or disease,* and after 
treatment shall remain either partially or wholly disabled there- 
from, the Surgeon in charge of such hospital shall report his case to 
the Commandant of the navy yard, and shall request a survey to be 
held upon him, which survey shall be ordered by the Commandant 
of the navy yard. Such surveys, and any other surveys that may 
be ordered upon persons in the naval service, on account of disability 
from wounds, injuries, or disease, involving claims for pensions, shall 
be composed of Captains or Commanders and of Surgeons. 

1419 . . Testimony shall be taken to determine whether the wounds, 
injuries, or disease occurred in the line of duty, and the line officers 
shall state distinctly their opinion thereon ; the medical officers 
shall decide upon the nature and degree of the disability, and if the 
disability has been incurred by disease, shall state their opinion as ' 
to the origin of such disease. When it is not possible to order 
Captains or Commanders and Surgeons on such surveys, lower 
grades of line and medical officers shall compose them. All re- 
ports of such surveys shall be made out in triplicate ; the original 
and duplicate shall be transmitted to the Secretary of the Navy, 
and in cases of disability incurred in the line of duty, the triplicate 
shall be given to the person in question, as his voucher for a claim 
to a pension. 

1420. -When any person belonging to the naval service, received 
in a naval hospital, as above provided, shall die in such hospital, 
the surgeon in charge shall report the death and attendant circum- 
stances to the Commandant of the navy yard, who shall order a 
board, composed as provided for in the preceding paragraph, to de- 
termine if the cause of death originated in the line of duty. If the 
death has ensued from disease, the testimony of medical officers 
shall be taken as to the cause or origin of such disease, but the 
line officers are to determine, by proper testimony, whether the 
disease, wound, or injury occasioning death was incurred in the 
line of duty. Reports to be made out in triplicate, and forwarded 
to the Secretary of the Navy. 

1421. .In exceptional cases of death, wounds, injury, or disability 
of person in the naval service, not falling under the cognizance of 
Commanding Officers, and not provided for in the preceding para- 



222 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Leaves of Absence. 

graphs, the Secretary of the Navy will decide as to whether such 
death, wound, injury, or disability was received in the line of duty. 

1422 . .These regulations do not extend to such cases of disability 
as are provided for by the sixth section of the act to amend certain 
acts in relation to the navy, approved March 2, 1857 ; nor do they 
preclude the ordinary reports of medical officers of the navy to the 
Chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery; nor are they to inter- 
fere with simple medical surveys to determine if officers or men are 
unfit for present service on board any vessel, as provided for by 
paragraph 1410, or with any special medical survey. 

ARTICLE XXVII. 
^Leaves of Absence and Furloughs. 

Section 1. — Leaves of Absence. 

1423 . .Permission to leave the United States can only be granted 
by the Secretary of the Navy, and no officer is ever to leave the 
United States under any leave of absence, unless such leave shall 
expressly authorize it. 

1424. .Within the United States Commanding Officers may grant 
leave of absence to persons under their command for not exceeding 
one week, provided it can be done without delaying the equipment 
of the vessel to which they may belong, or producing other injury 
to the public service, and that no leave is granted to any officer 
belonging to a vessel under sailing orders to go beyond the limits 
of the jjlace or station. 

142 5.. Commanders-in-Chief of squadrons and Commanders of 
navy yards or stations in the United States shall not leave the 
limits of their command for a longer period than one week in any 
successive two months without the permission of the Secretary of 
the Navy. 

1426 ..Permission will not hereafter be granted by Commanding 
Officers of squadrons or vessels in commission to any officer or man 
under their command to leave his station for any causes connected 
with health till a board of medical survey shall have pronounced 
such a measure essential to early recovery, or have reported the 
officer or man unfitted for further duty on his station ; and Com- 



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Leaves of Absence. 

man cling Officers of squadrons abroad will not hereafter grant leaves 
of absence, unless authorized by the Navy Department, to officers 
to return to the United States, except upon the recommendation of 
a medical board of survey. This order is not intended to supersede 
the instructions of -October 3, 1861, authorizing the Commanding 
Officer of a vessel detached from a squadron, or on separate service, 
to transfer sick or invalids upon the report of the Medical Officer of 
the vessel. Officers on leave, in consequence of medical survey or 
sick ticket, will report their state of health to the Department 
every fifteen days. 

1427. . Officers of the Navy applying for a leave of absence, or an 
extension thereof, on the score of ill health, must forward at the 
same time to the Department the certificate of a surgeon in the 
Navy, if there be one in their vicinity : or, if there be no naval 
surgeon, of some respectable surgeon or physician, of their inability 
to perform duty. Such certificates must state the nature of the 
disease and the probable duration thereof, as far as can be judged. 

1428 ..Unless otherwise directed by competent authority, tem- 
porary leave to officers may be granted by their Commanding Offi- 
cers ; but no such leave is to exceed twenty-four hours, unless 
sanctioned by the Commander-in-Chief or Senior Officer present. 

1429 ..The petty officers and men belonging to vessels in the 
Navy will be permitted to visit the shore on suitable occasions, 
when it can be done without injury to the public service. In foreign 
ports such permission will not be granted, if objected to by the 
proper authorities thereof. The senior officer present must always 
be consulted before such leave in foreign ports is granted. Leaves 
of absence, or permission to go on liberty, will not be granted to any 
enlisted man by any person other than the Commanding Officer of 
the vessel to which he is attached ; and should the Commanding 
Officer be absent on service, or on temporary leave, the officer left 
in command shall have no power to grant leave to any enlisted man 
unless specially authorized by the Commanding Officer. The names 
of those to whom leave is to be granted must be specified in writ- 
ing, and signed by the Commanding Officer previous to his absent- 
ing himself from the vessel. 

1430 . .Leave is not to be granted to enlisted men who are in debt 
to the government, unless they deposit, as security, the full amount 



224 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Fwrlo ugh s — Correspondence. 

of their indebtedness, and in no case unless, in the judgment of the 
Commanding Officer, there is no probability of desertion. Here- 
after all funds deposited by enlisted men, as security for their re- 
turn from absence on leave, and forfeited by their desertion, and 
any bounty-money or advanced pay refunded by minors or others 
discharged from the service, will be deposited by the Paymaster 
with the nearest United. States Assistant Treasurer ; the advance 
pay to the credit of "pay of the navy," and the bounty and other 
money to the appropriation for naval bounties. The certificate of 
deposit, in the case of advanced pay, is to be transmitted to the 
Navy Department, and in other cases to the Bureau of Equipment 
and Recruiting, to be sent to the Fourth Auditor of the Treasury. 

Section 2. — Furloughs. 

1431.. Officers can only be placed on furlough by the Secretary 
of the Navy. 

1432 . . Officers on furlough are not to wear their uniforms, except 
on occasions of special ceremonies. 

ARTICLE XXVIII. 
Correspondence. 

1433 . . Officers of the Navy and Marine Corps, and all other per- 
sons connected with the naval service, will observe the following 
rules in their correspondence with the Secretary of the Navy and 
the Bureaus of the Department ; 

1434 . . All communications are to be written in a clear and legible 
hand, in concise terms, without erasures or interlineations, and on 
one side only of each half sheet. 

1435 ..If the subject-matter can be completed on one page, and 
no communications or papers are inclosed with the letter, a half 
sheet only shall be used; but if communications or papers are in- 
closed with the letter, a whole sheet shall be used, and such com- 
munications or papers shall be placed between the leaves. 

1436-.Inclosures are to be separately numbered, and referred to 
accordingly. 

1437. .The paper used is to be white foolscap, thirteen and a half 



NAYY OF THE UNITED STATES. 225 

Correspondence. 

by sixteen and a half inches, weighing sixteen pounds to the ream, 
and made of linen stock ; to be stop-ruled, with twenty-four blue 
lines on the first and third pages only, leaving one-inch margin 
back and front, top and bottom. 
1438 ..Separate letters are to be written on separate subjects. 
1439. -Letters are to be folded twice, parallel with the ruling, 
indorsed with the name and rank of the writer, place or vessel, 
date, and brief statement of the contents. 

1440 ..Signatures are to be distinctly legible, and the writer is 
to annex his rank or rate. This rule is also to be observed on all 
occasions of officers signing their names to official documents. 

1441 ..Commanders of fleets, squadrons, and stations, and all 
other officers having a regular correspondence with the Depart- 
ment, are to number their letters. A new series is to commence on 
the 1st of January of each year. 

1442 . - When letters or documents are dated at sea, the latitude 
and longitude are to be stated. 

1443 . . In all communications dated on board ship, the rate of 
the vessel shall be stated after her name. 

1444 ..In order to facilitate the public business and prevent 
errors, the dates of all circulars, orders, telegrams, or letters, to 
which reference is made in corresponding with the Department or 
any of its Bureaus, shall oe distinctly quoted. And the same rule is 
to be observed in forwarding triplicate bills, bills of lading, and 
invoices, the date of the order or orders being written across the 
face in red ink. 

1445 ..All letters and documents transmitted in a foreign lan- 
guage are, when possible, to be accompanied by translations. 

1446 ..Commanders-in-Chief and other officers abroad are to for- 
ward, by different conveyances, duplicates, and, if necessary, tripli- 
cates, of all important letters they may write, either to the Secre- 
tary of the Navy or to any of the Bureaus, and on these occasions 
they are to state at the top of each letter, in red ink, when and by 
what conveyance the original was sent. 

14 4 7 ..Every person in the Navy making a report, application, 
requisition, or communication of any kind whatever to the Secre- 
tary of the Navy, a Bureau, the Commander-in-Chief, or to any au- 
thority other than his Commanding Officer, will send the same 
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226 REGULATIONS FOR, THE 

Correspondence. 

unsealed to such Commanding Officer, to be by him remarked upon 
and forwarded to its address. 

1448.. All Officers through whom communications from inferiors 
are to be forwarded to the Department, one of the Bureaus, or any 
authority higher than themselves, must forward the same, if couched 
in respectful language, as soon after being received as practicable ; 
and they will invariably state their opinions in writing, by in- 
dorsement or otherwise, in relation to every subject presented 
fordecision. The term "forwarded" is only to be indorsed upon 
such papers as require no action from the Department or other 
authority. 

1449.. No officer left temporarily in the place of a Commander- 
in-Chief is to assume, or to allow himself to be addressed by, any 
higher title than his commission bespeaks, nor is he, in his written 
communications, to subscribe himself otherwise than, after his rank, 
as the Senior Officer present. 

1450.. The general routine to be observed in forwarding com- 
munications, or in submitting requisitions or reports, is as follows : 
Commanders of vessels to transmit them to the Commander of the 
division to which they belong; Commanders of divisions, to the 
Commander of fleet or squadron to which they belong ; Command- 
ers of squadrons, to the Commander-in-Chief; Commander-in-Chief, 
to the Navy Department. Each of said officers, in forwarding papers 
from others, to append his approval, or such remarks as he may 
judge necessary and proper. Fleet officers shall forward all com- 
munications through the Chief of the Staff. The senior Marine 
Officer of the fleet, squadron, or division, will forward all reports or 
returns from the several vessels through the Chief of the Staff. 
Should he be in command of the guard of the vessel in which he is 
serving, all reports or returns relating to that vessel will be for- 
warded through his Commanding Officer. 

1451 ..If there be no Commanders of divisions Commanders of 
vessels will transmit them to the Commander of the fleet or squad- 
ron ; and if there be no Commander-in-Chief other than the Com- 
mander of the squadron, he will refer such as may be necessary to 
the Navy Department. 

14 5 2 ..In case vessels of a fleet or squadron should be separated 
from the Commander-in-Chief, then, in the absence of their divis- 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 227 

Correspondence. 

ional Commander, the senior officer present is to be regarded in the 
light of a Commander of a division. _ 

1453 ..In case of a vessel acting singly, and being alone, her 
Commanding Officer is, of his own authority, to dispose of requisi- 
tions and reports, and to be the medium of reference to the Navy 
Department ; but if not alone, the senior officer present, whoever 
he may be, is to discharge those functions. 

1454 ..Should the same communication be made to the Secretary 
of the Navy and any Bureau, the person forwarding such duplicates 
shall state the same in his communication. 

1455 . .When officers are separated from the Commander-in-Chief, 
and important or useful information is likely to be delayed by trans- 
mission through the latter, reports will be sent directly to the De- 
partment, and copies to the Commander-in-Chief. 

1456. -The receipt of all communications, except acknowledg- 
ments, or other communications clearly requiring neither action 
nor reply, from the Secretary of the Navy, or from any Bureau of 
the Department, is to be immediately acknowledged, taking care to 
refer to the subject to which they respectively allude. 

1457. -There are established in the Navy Department the follow- 
ing Bureaus : 

1. Bureau of Yards and Docks. 

2. Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting. 

3. Bureau of Navigation. 

4. Bureau of Ordnance. 

5. Bureau of Construction and Repair. 

6. Bureau of Steam Engineering. 

7. Bureau of Provisions and Clothing. 

8. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. 

1458 ..All orders, circulars, and instructions issued by a Chief 
of Bureau will relate solely to subjects with which his Bureau is 
specially charged. •» 

1459 ..Official letters, relating solely to subjects with which 
a Bureau is intrusted, are to be addressed to the Chief of a 
Bureau. All other correspondence must be with the Secretary of 
the Navy. 

1460 ..All persons in the navy are forbidden to publish, or cause 
or permit to be published, directly or indirectly, any official instruc- 



228 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Correspondence. 

tions, reports, or letters, or to furnish copies of the same to any per- 
son, without the permission of the Secretary of the Navy. 

1461 .- Officers are prohibited from commenting, in their private 
correspondence, upon the operations or condition of the vessel or 
squadron to which they may be attached, or from giving any in- 
formation of their destination or intended operations, lest such 
communications may be published to the injury of the public 
service. 

1462.. Officers mnst enter, in proper books, copies of all the 
official letters they may write, and carefully file and preserve all 
official documents. The date of the receipts, aud of the acknowl- 
edgments, of all such documents, must be written on their face. 

1463. -Letter-books, containing copies of all orders given, or 
official letters written, and the originals of all letters received on 
public service, at the different navy yards and at other shore sta- 
tions, by the Commanding Officer thereof, must be left at those 
yards and stations, and carefully preserved as records. The Com- 
manding Officers may, if they think proper, take copies for their 
own use of all orders or letters which they may receive or write. 

1464.. All correspondence with private parties on public busi- 
ness by any official of a navy yard or station, except the Command- 
ant thereof, is prohibited. 

1465 . . All reports from the Executive Officer, Officers of Divisions, 
Engineer, Surgeon, Paymaster, or any other person, made to the 
Commander of a vessel after battle, or any important service, shall 
be forwarded to the Navy Department, but such Commander will 
retain copies of them for future reference. 

1466. -Copies of all general orders and instructions issued by a 
Commander-in-Chief of all official correspondence of public interest, 
and of all internal rules that may be issued by Commanders of ves- 
sels, shall be sent to the Navy Department. 

1467.. Commanding Officers will observef^reat care in forward- 
ing reports to the Department in relation to the official conduct of 
those under their command, and shall, in all cases, when it will not 
be clearly injurious to the public service, inform the officer com- 
plained of or reported of the nature of the representations in rela- 
tion to him. 

1468.. No application for a revocation or modification of orders 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 229 

Approval of Requisitions, Accounts, etc. 

from any officer of the navy, ordered to report for duty at any place 
or station, will be considered or replied to by the Department, until 
such officer, if able to travel, has reported in obedience to such 
order. 

ARTICLE XXIX. 

Approval of 'Requisitions, Accounts, and Muster Books, Pur- 
chases, and Articles delivered. 

1469 ..The approval of a requisition for money, or other articles, 
is to be considered as a certificate, on the part of the approving 
officer, that, in his opinion, the articles named in the requisition 
are necessary for the public service, and are conformable to such 
allowances as may be established ; and the approval of such requi- 
sition by the officer whose approval will authorize the procurement 
or delivery of such articles, according to these regulations or in- 
structions from the Navy Department, is to have the force and re- 
sponsibility of an order. In the procurement and expenditure of 
stores, Commanding and all other officers concerned are peremp- 
torily enjoined to be governed by the allowances established by 
the Navy Department, and by the exercise of the most scrupulous 
economy, to make them last for the full time they are intended, 
and as much longer as practicable. Unless in a case of absolute 
necessity, arising from some unavoidable accident, or from a formal 
condemnation by survey — to be plainly set forth on the face of the 
requisition — or the article be of a character, the quantity of which, 
for a given time, cannot possibly be well regulated — that is, tar of 
any kind, oil for burning, oil or other grease for lubricating, waste 
for wiping, emery, rivets, files, boiler-iron for patching, material for 
making or repairing joints about steam works, slacked lime, a dis- 
infectant, a medicinal, or stationery for the Commander-in-Chief — 
no departure from said allowances will be tolerated, either by the 
procurement, at the public expense, of anything which they do 
not embrace or of anything which they do, in advance of the 
expiration of the time for which it is furnished to last. Command- 
ing Officers will be held to a strict account for any requisitions 
they may approve in violation of these instructions ; and for any 
want of x>roper care or interest on their part to secure the utmost 



230 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Approval of Requisitions, Accounts, etc. 

practicable economy in the use of the public property with which 
they are intrusted, or over which they are required and expected 
to exercise control, they will be held to a rigid responsibility ; 
and to this end they will forward copies of all bills of purchases 
to the proper bureau of the Navy Department, accompanying 
them with a statement of the quantity of the respective articles 
put on board when the vessel was fitted out, and the date of their 
final expenditure. 

14 70.. The approval or signature of a Commanding Officer of a 
vessel to a muster-book or muster-roll is to be considered as his 
certificate of the correctness of all the entries made therein in rela- 
tion to the date of enlistment, ratings, terms, and expiration of ser- 
vice ; and he will be particularly careful to examine all such books 
or rolls, that full confidence may be placed in such as are thus signed 
or approved. 

1471.. The approval of a Commanding Officer to a quarterly 
muster and pay-roll, or to a transfer roll,, or account, given to or 
sent with men transferred, is to be considered as his certificate 
of the correctness of those parts which are a transcript from the 
general muster-book, relating to the dates of enlistment, ratings, 
terms, and expiration of service, but not to the correctness of those 
parts relating to their accounts, which are upon the responsibility 
of the Paymaster, and to be certified by his signature to the said 
transfer-rolls or accounts. 

1472 ..The approval of an officer to a bill for articles purchased, 
or services rendered, is to be received as a certificate that the pur- 
chase or service was duly authorized ; that the articles have been 
received by a resj)onsible officer of the government, or that the ser- 
vice has been performed ; that they conform to the contract, or are 
otherwise satisfactory as regards the performance of the duty, and 
the quality and price of the articles, but not for the correctness of 
the calculations determining the amounts charged. The person re- 
ceipting such bills of articles is to examine and report any errors, 
but the person paying them is to be finally responsible for their 
correctness. 

1473 ..All requisitions for purchases to be made in open market 
must, before any such purchases are made, be submitted to the ap- 
propriate bureau for its action. The requisitions must be in dupli- 



NAYY OF THE UNITED STATES. 231 

Approval of Eequisitions, Accounts, etc. 

cate ; and accompanied by an explanation of the nses of, and the 
necessity for, such purchases. 

1474. .The approval of an officer, whose approval, by the instruc- 
tions of the Treasury or Navy Department, will authorize the pay- 
I ment of monej", is to have the force, and to be given under the 
responsibility of, an order for such payment, and is always to be 
accompanied by the rank of the officer and the date of the approval, 
and the sum for which the account is aiDproved written in words at 
length. 

1475 ..The Bureaus of the Navy Department will not pass bills 
for work performed that are not approved by the Commanding 
Officer who has been authorized to incur the indebtedness for, and 
has had charge of, such work. 

1476 ..On a change of command on a foreign station, the officer 
who relinquishes the command will take care that all bills for arti- 
cles, the requisitions for which have been approved by him, are 
settled before he relinquishes the command ; but if from any cir- 
cumstances this cannot be done, the officer who approved the requi- 
sitions will be responsible for the correctness of the purchases, 
though the bills may be authorized to be paid by his successor. 

1477 ..The Commander of a fleet or a single ship, when acting 
alone, shall, before leaving a port at which he may have received 
supplies, notify the persons who may have furnished the same to 
attend at some specified time and place with their accounts, so that 
none may be left without receiving his inspection and approval, 
should they be correct. 

1478 ..Purchases made for the Navy by any agent of the Navy 
Department, upon requisitions or orders addressed to him, are to be 
made after due inquiry and comparison, by such agent, on the most 
favorable terms for the government, and upon prices agreed upon 
before the purchase is made, and he shall certify the same upon the 
bills rendered for the articles. 

14 79 ..Where articles are delivered by, or under the direction of, 
an agent who purchased the same, the officer who is to take charge 
of and receipt for them shall examine the bills rendered, and if, in 
his opinion, any of the articles are charged above the fair market 
price, he shall report the same to the officer under whose approval 
they were required, before receipting for them, that such approving 



232 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

General Muster-Book. 

officer may institute inquiries and take such other measures as the 
case may require. 

1480 . . Where inspections are required to determine the quality 
of articles, or their conformity with contracts or agreements, no 
receipts are to be given for them until the inspecting officers shall 
have certified their satisfaction with the articles delivered. 

1481. .In accordance with the fifteenth section of the act ap- 
proved July 17, 1862, which provides, " That every person who shall 
furnish supplies of any kind to the Army or Navy shall be required 
to mark and distinguish the same with the name or names of the 
contractors so furnishing said supplies, in such manner as the Secre- 
tary of War and the Secretary of the Navy may respectively direct, 
and no supplies of any kind shall be received unless so marked and 
distinguished," hereafter all articles furnished for the use of the 
Navy must be marked and distinguished with the name or names 
of the contractors supplying the same. 

ARTICLE XXX. 

/ General Muster-Book. 

1482.. Every person on board any United States vessel of war ? 
who receives either wages or provisions, must be entered in the 
general muster-book; but as they will not all be in the same class 
or situation, it will be necessary to have several lists, separated 
from each other on the book by convenient spaces, and a separate 
series of numbers for the several entries in each list. The lists re- 
quired to keep the necessary distinctions are the following : 

1. A list of the commissioned and warranted Navy Officers, in- 
cluding secretaries and clerks. 

2. A list of petty officers, seamen, ordinary seamen, landsmen, 
boys, machinists, firemen, coal-heavers, and others borne for pay 
and provisions. 

3. A list of officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, and 
privates of marines. 

4. A list of supernumeraries for pay and provisions only. 

5. A list of all other supernumeraries. 

6. A list of prisoners of war. 

1483. -The letter " D." is to be placed against the name of every 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 233 

Books — Traveling and oilier Allowances, etc. 

person who has been detached ; the letter " T." against the name of 
every person who has been transferred ; the letters " Dis." against 
the name of every person who has been discharged alive ; the letters 
" D. D. v against the name of every person who may have died, and 
therefore discharged dead ; the letter. " S." against the name of 
every person pronounced a straggler ; and the letter " R." against 
the name of every person pronounced a deserter. 

1484.. The entry in each list of the muster-book must be distin- 
guished by a number in the first column, to be exclusively appropri- 
ated to it, and which must never be applied to any other entry in the 
same list, but to each new entry a new number must be ^iven. 

1485 . . The muster-book shall be kept in such form as the Navy 
Department shall prescribe. 

ARTICLE XXXI. 

JBoolks. 

1486 ..The receipt to the officer delivering the books allowed a 
vessel is to be given by her Navigating Officer. 

1487.. On board flag vessels they are to be kept in the apart- 
ment occupied by the Commander of a fleet, squadron, or division, 
under the immediate charge of his secretary, who is to receipt for 
them to the Navigating Officer. On board all other vessels they 
are to be kept in the apartment occupied by the Commanding Offi- 
cer, under the immediate charge of his clerk, who is to receipt for 
them to the Navigating Officer. On board all vessels the Navigating 
Officer is to ascertain quarterly, or oftener, if necessary, if any of 
them are missing, and to report such as may be to the officer in 
whos% apartment they were kept. This will relieve him from the 
responsibility of losses, and place it upon the secretary or clerk, as 
the case may be. At the end of the cruise the Navigating Officer 
will see that the books are properly returned into store. 

ARTICLE XXXII. 

Raveling- and other Allowances— Rules Concerning- the Com- 
mencement and End of Rates of Pay. 

1488 . . No officer or other person can be paid mileage except for 
travel actually performed free of government transportation or ex- 



234 REGULATIONS FOB THE 

Traveling and other Allowances, etc. 

pense, and in obedience to orders. To entitle an officer of the navy, 
including a secretary or clerk, to traveling expenses, lie must shoiv 
the Paymaster his orders and indorsements thereon, after having 
reported for duty. 

1489 . . Officers and others ordered from one station to another, 
as members of courts-martial, courts of inquiry, boards of examina- 
tion, inspection, &c, or as witnesses, will be allowed traveling ex- 
penses from the place whence ordered and back again, (unless other 
orders are given,) upon presentation to the pay agent of their orders 
to that service and discharge therefrom. Paymasters, as vouchers 
in the settlement of their accounts, will have the orders for travel- 
ing expenses above referred to, copied, which copies will be certified 
by the officers as correct. 

1490.. When enlisted men are honorably discharged, within the 
United States, from vessels returning from sea, they shall be en- 
titled to three cents per mile as traveling expenses from the place 
of discharge to the place of enlistment, if within the United States ; 
and this allowance will be paid by the Paymaster of the vessel, 
with the final account of the person entitled thereto, and noted on 
his discharge. 

1491 ..The allowance for the traveling expenses of officers of the 
Navy is fixed by law at ten cents per mile. For traveling out of 
the United States the actual necessary expenses only are allowed. 
Detention at any place on the route must be certified by the officer 
to have been necessarily incurred in awaiting the next conveyance, 
The expenses must be shown by vouchers in the usual form, unless 
the officer certifies that it was not practicable to obtain them, in 
which case his own certificate to a detailed statement of the actual 
and necessary expenses will be received as sufficient evidence. The 
traveling expenses of officers within the United States will be paid 
by the pay agent at the place to which they shall have been ordered, 
or by the Paymaster of the vessel to which their orders attach them. 
When a doubt exists as to the distance traveled, the certificate of 
the officer stating the route by which he traveled, with the distance 
thereon, and that it was the shortest route usually traveled, will 
be received as evidence, where the Post Office records do not deter- 
mine, and he should certify that a public conveyance was not fur- 
nished. 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 235 

Traveling and other Allowances, etc. 

1492.. The actual and necessary traveling expenses of officers 
proceeding from the United States, under orders for foreign service, 
will be paid upon the production of bills and receipts ; or if they 
shall certify that it was not practicable to obtain receipts, then 
upon a statement of the actual and necessary expenses, made with 
as much particularity as may be in their power, and certified to be 
correct. The traveling expenses of officers returning to the United 
States from foreign service under orders, or under permission granted 
in consequence of sickness or medical survey, will be paid upon the 
same evidence as is required by the last rule in the case of officers 
going abroad. 

1493 ..Paymasters are not entitled to traveling expenses in com- 
ing to Washington to settle their accounts, unless they do so under 
orders from the Department. 

1494.. Paymasters' Yeomen and Apothecaries are not allowed 
traveling expenses, unless by special direction of the Department, 
and then only actual expenses. 

1495. .Any fireman, coal-heaver, seaman, ordinary seaman, lands- 
man, or boy, who re-enlists for the term of three years within three 
months after an honorable discharge, pursuant to the act entitled 
" An act to provide a more efficient discipline of the navy," ap- 
proved March 2, 1855, and to the act approved June 7, 1884, is en- 
titled to three months' pay, according to the rating borne upon his 
discharge, although the re-enlistment may take place immediately 
after such discharge. This gratuity is conferred only on enlisted 
men; stewards and other persons who are appointed are not entitled, 
though possessing such a discharge. 

1496. .Paymasters will be allowed the unavoidable loss sustained 
on clothing and small stores committed to their charge, not exceed- 
ing on the former one and a half per cent., or, on the latter, two 
per cent., upon their presenting their own certificate of the amount 
of the loss, and of its having been unavoidably incurred, and a 
certificate of the Commander of the vessel of his belief that the 
Paymaster, in the preservation and issuing of the articles intrusted 
to him, used all the care and diligence which a prudent man would 
use in respect to his own property. 

14 9 7.. To entitle any person to the one-fourth additional pay 
granted by the act of July 17, 1862, he must either have re-enlisted 



236 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Traveling and other Allowances, etc. 

to serve until the return of the vessel in which he is serving, and 
his discharge therefrom in the United States, or he must have been 
detained by the Commanding Officer under the seventeenth section 
of the said act. In order to sustain a charge for such additional 
payment, therefore, it will be necessary for the Paymaster by whom 
it shall have been made, to produce, upon the settlement of his ac- 
count, a certificate of the Commanding Officer that the persons to 
whom such additional compensation shall have been allowed (men- 
tioning their names) did actually re-enlist as aforesaid, or wqre 
detained by him under the said section of the act referred to. This 
additional pay, under the seventeenth section of the act of July 17, 
1862, is to be allowed to all enlisted men detained after the expira- 
tion of their terms of enlistment, whether serving on foreign stations 
or home squadrons. 

1498 . .For the subsistence of prisoners on board of public vessels, 
who may mess in either the cabin or ward-room, one dollar and 
fifty cents per day shall be credited to the mess, and paid by the 
Paymaster for each person. For their subsistence in any other 
officers' mess, there shall be so credited and paid one dollar per day 
for each person ; and for their subsistence in any other mess on 
board than an officers', or by themselves, one ration will be allowed. 
It is strictly required, in every case, that the caterer of the mess 
claiming such credit from the Paymaster shall furnish to him his 
certificate, apjjroved by the Commanding Officer of the vessel, that 
the actual cost is equal to the amount charged ; if less, then to 
whatever lesser sum such subsistence may cost the mess. No other 
charge shall be made, nor shall any such person conveyed on board 
such vessels be required to pay to the mess in which he may live 
any compensation for subsistence or passage. 

1499.. When officers of the navy are ordered to take passage in 
any vessel of the United States Navy, no allowance will be made to 
any mess for the subsistence of such officers. 

1500 . . For the subsistence of pilots who may mess in the ward- 
room, two dollars per day shall be credited to the mess and paid by 
the Paymaster for each person. For their subsistence in any other 
officers' mess, there shall be so credited and paid one dollar per day 
for each person; and for their subsistence in any other mess on 
board than an officers', or by themselves^ one ration will be allowed. 



NAYY OF THE UNITED STATES. 237 

Traveling and other Allowances, etc. 

1501 --Although it is usual for our uiiuisters to be conveyed iu 
ships of war, no allowance is made for the expenses of their main- 
tenance while on board. In every such case provision is to be made, 
and the expense to be defrayed by the minister himself, just as it 
would be if he took passage in a private vessel. 

1502 ..The five cents per day allowed by law to each person in 
the Navy in lieu of the spirit ration is in addition to pay. Pay 
officers will credit this allowance on their rolls, under the separate 
head of " undrawn spirits," to each person on board ship entitled to 
a ration, and at the end of each quarter will pay the amount due to 
such of the crew and marines as may elect to receive it. If any 
person shall decline to receive such payment, it must remain to his 
credit on the books of the ship, and be accounted for in the same 
manner as other pay. The commutation price of the navy ration 
will continue to be twenty-five cents, without reference to the ixve 
cents allowed as above mentioned. 

1503 ..The necessary and proper funeral expenses of all persons 
who shall die while in actual service of the United States will be 
paid, when sanctioned by the Navy Department, or by the Com- 
mander-in-chief of the squadron, when on foreign service. 

1504. -A Marine Officer commanding a guard of a man-of-war, 
will be entitled to an allowance of ten dollars per month for re- 
sponsibility of clothing, arms, and accoutrements. 

1505 . .No officer in any branch of the public service, or any other 
person whose salary, pay, or emolument is fixed by laws or regula- 
tions, shall receive any additional pay, extra allowance, or compen- 
sation, in any form whatever, for the disbursement of public money, 
or any other service or duty whatsoever, unless the same shall be 
authorized by law, and the appropriation therefor explicitly set 
forth that it is for such additional pay, extra allowance, or com- 
pensation. 

1506 ..No charge will be allowed, in the accounts of Paymasters, 
for a commission paid to any person for making purchases for the 
vessels of war of the United States on foreign stations. Such pur- 
chases shall be made by the fleet or other paymasters, or by the 
resident Naval Storekeeper, if there be one. 

1507 ..Upon an original appointment of an officer (if he be not a 
bonded officer) his pay will commence at the date of acceptance. 



238 REGULATIONS FOE, THE 

Traveling and other Allowances, etc. 

This rule aiDplies to secretaries and clerks, but they are not to be 
appointed until the officers authorized to confer the aj)pointments 
have left their domiciles to enter upon the service on which they 
may be ordered. 

1508.. The pay of all promoted officers, modified by the laws in 
relation to the pay of officers subject to examination before promo- 
tion, commences from the date of the signature of an appointment 
to perform the duty, should one be given before the issue of a war- 
rant or commission ; or from the date of the warrant or commission, 
should no appointment have been previously given. 

1509. .The sea-pay of officers will commence when they report 
for duty on board a sea-going vessel, under the authority of the De- 
partment, which is in accordance with the law. When officers are 
ordered home from abroad, their sea pay will continue until they 
report their return to the Navy Department on arriving in the 
United States, provided they return in naval vessels ; returning 
otherwise, they can only receive other-duty pay. The duty pay 
of an engineer officer is the same, whether employed on shore duty 
or at sea, and it commences from the date of his leaving his domi- 
cile in obedience to orders for duty, though only entitled to credit 
for sea service and allowance of rations from the date, of joining a 
vessel in commission for sea service. 

1510. -When an officer who is attached to a vessel for sea service 
enters a hospital tor treatment, he shall continue to receive sea 
pay for three months, unless sooner detached, by the recommenda- 
tion of the Medical Officer. 

1511 ..Chaplains are to be paid the same pay as [that specified 
for Lieutenants in the act of 18th July, 1862. (Attorney General's 
opinion of 4th September, 1862.) 

1512 . .The provision of the seventeenth section of the act of 16th 
July, 1862, viz : " In calculating the graduated pay of boatswains, 
gunners, carpenters, and sail-makers in the Navy, as established by 
law, the sea service shall be computed from the dates of their ap- 
pointments or entry into the service in their respective grades in 
lieu of the dates of their warrants," is regarded as effective only 
from the passage of that act. 

1513 ..An officer attached to a vessel for sea service, who re- 
ceives from the Department a leave of absence on account of ill health, 



NAYY OF THE UNITED STATES. 239 

Traveling and other Allowances, etc. 

will be considered as entitled to sea pay, as in the case of an officer 
similarly attached who enters a hospital for treatment, and then to 
" other-duty" pay until lie reports for duty on ship-hoard ; that is, 
he is entitled to sea pay three months, and " other-duty" pay until 
he reports or is detached. 

1514. -Officers of the Navy attached to vessels employed under 
the orders of the Department in active service in rivers or lakes are 
entitled to sea pay as well as to rations. 

1515 . . An acting appointment by order of a Commanding Officer, 
and subsequently confirmed by the Secretary of the Navy, is deemed 
valid. A copy of the order, certified as such by the Commander of 
the vessel, may be substituted for the original. It must, however, 
also be shown that it was issued to supply a deficiency in the estab- 
lished complement of the vessel, and cannot otherwise be made. 

15 16.. Machinists, firemen, and coal-heavers, when unable to 
perform their duties from other causes than sickness, or injury re- 
ceived in line of duty, or when they neglect them, shall receive only 
a reduced pay ; that is, machinists shall have one-tenth deducted 
from their pay ; firemen of the first class shall only receive the pay 
of firemen of the second; those of the second, the pay of coal- 
heavers, and coal-heavers the pay of ordinary seamen, so long as 
they neglect their duties or are unable to perform them, or until 
duly discharged from the service. 

15 17.. No person enlisted for the naval service is entitled to pay 
while at a naval hospital after the expiration of his term of enlist- 
ment, but he may be retained for hospital treatment. 

15 18 ..Masters-at-arms, yeomen, apothecaries, and paymasters' 
yeomen, appointed to a vessel ordered on distant service, will be 
allowed an advance of pay for the usual term, upon condition that 
the officers by whom they are respectively appointed consent to be- 
come responsible for such advance, which will be made by the Pay- 
master of the vessel. 

1519.. Officers are entitled to receive the pay due them up to the 
date of sailing, without reference to the advance received from the 
pay agent. 

1520.. A temporary leave of absence is not to be understood as 
detaching an Officer from duty to which he has been ordered by au- 
thority of the Department, or as affecting his rate of pay. 



240 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Accounts. 

1521 ..The accounts of officers who are paid through the Fourth 
Auditor's office will be settled only at the end of each quarter of the 
calendar year, or at the period of their transfer to some disbursing 
officer. 

1522.. Pay Officers will be allowed " other-duty" pay for them- 
selves and their clerks for the time employed in the settlement of 
their accounts, not exceeding the period specified in paragraph 1543. 
And neither clerks nor yeomen of the pay department shall be re- 
quired to x^erform clerical services for any other than the pay officer 
of the vessel, except in cases of emergency, to be approved by the 
Commanding Officer. 

ARTICLE XXXIII. 

Accounts. 

15 2 3. -Disbursing officers of the United States are required to 
keep their accounts with the United States separate and distinct 
under every bond given by them, respectively, and to state, in the 
caption of each quarterly account, the date of the bond under which 
it is rendered. 

1524.. Any Paymaster of the Navy, resident within the United 
States, who shall transmit to the Fourth Auditor, within ten days 
after the end of every month, a summary statement showing his 
balance at the commencement of the month, his receipts and dis- 
bursements, under each head of appropriation, during such month, 
and the balance at the end of the same, such statement being certi- 
fied to be correct by the officer required to approve the accounts 
of such Paymaster, shall be authorized to render his accounts for 
settlement quarterly instead of monthly, provided that such ac- 
counts be duly transmitted within one month after the end of the 
quarter to which they refer. 

15 2 5.. Pay masters of the Navy on foreign stations, or serving on 
board vessels actually performing blockading duty, must transmit 
the monthly summary statements required in the preceding para- 
graph, unless they furnish the Fourth Auditor with satisfactory 
evidence that the nature and exigencies of the service in which 
they were engaged at that time prevented the transmission of such 
statements. In such cases they will be authorized to transmit their 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 241 

Accounts. 

accounts quarterly, agreeably to the provisions of the act of Janu- 
ary 31, 1823. When the Paymaster of a sea-going vessel renders his 
account he must transmit to the Fourth Auditor — 

1. A general pay-roll, embracing the individual accounts of the 
officers, men, and marines, with the columns added and the amount 
stated in ink, and a recapitulation of the several pages ; and it must 
be signed, in the receipt column, by officers, men, and marines, and 
each signature of the men and marines witnessed by an officer. 

2. A muster-roll, showing the dates of entry and detachment of 
officers, and the entry, discharge, transfer, and desertion of the men 
and marines, and the expiration of the term of enlistment of the 
men ; and showing, also, the vessel or station to which the officers, 
men, and marines may have been transferred. The rolls must be 
approved by the Commanding Officer of the vessel. 

3. Vouchers for all open purchases and other contingent bills, 
properly approved by the Commanding Officer and receipted. 

4. A complete statement of the small-store and clothing account, 
with the receipts of the Inspectors and other disbursing officers ; 
also, a full statement of all moneys received for provisions. 

5. An account of the sales of bills of exchange, with the certificate 
of at least two merchants as to the rate of exchange at the time of 
negotiating every bill. 

6. All transfer accounts and rolls of officers or men, whether to or 
from the vessel. Transfer accounts of officers will be made out in 
triplicate, one part to be sent to the Fourth Auditor, and the other 
two parts to the Paymaster to whom the transfer is made, one of 
which is to be receipted by him and returned to the Paymaster by 
whom the transfer is made, to accompany his final account. The 
accounts of the men must not be transferred to the Fourth Auditor 
for payment at the end of a cruise unless specially directed by the. 
Secretary of the Navy or Fourth Auditor. The discharge should 
not be given unless the man is present and receives the pay due 
him. « 

7. All original letters, or copies thereof, from pay agents, Fourth 
Auditor's office, and the Department, and official papers necessary 
to substantiate his accounts ; copies of officers' orders to join the 
vessel, certified by themselves, also with their certificates as to the 
time of accepting their orders. 

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242 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Accounts, 

8. An account current, showing all his receipts and expenditures, 
and the date of his bond. 

15 2 6.. Pay masters on board receiving ships, or at shore stations, 
Trill be guided by these instructions in the rendering of their ac- 
counts, so far as they are applicable. 

15 2 7.. In the rendition of the accounts Paymasters of all grades 
are required to forward to the Fourth Auditor's Office, besides the 
papers above specified, ail their original books from which such 
accounts are compiled, such as ledgers, journals, receipt books, $fcc. 

1528 . . All Disbursing Officers must prepay the expense of transpor- 
tation of their accounts to the Fourth Auditor's Office for settlement 
if they be sent by any other conveyance than the United States 
mail, but it will be allowed in the final settlement. 

15 2 9.. A general witness to signatures on the pay-roll is not suf- 
ficient. The signature of the officer witnessing the receipt must be 
given in each case. 

1530.. Paymasters will make an immediate return to the Fourth 
Auditor's Office of the accounts of deceased officers, seamen, or 
marines, and transmit their wills if they shall have left auy. The 
balances which may have been due to them at the time of their 
death will be paid only after a statemeut of their accounts at the 
Fourth Auditor's Office. 

1531.. Payment of balances due deceased seamen and marines 
will be made to administrators who are heirs, or appointed with the 
consent of a majority of the heirs. 

1532.. When the balance due does not exceed the sum of one 
hundred dollars, letters of administration will be dispensed with, 
and the prescribed affidavits substituted. The widow, if she be the 
applicant, should render a certified copy of her marriage certificate. 

15 3 3 ..Heirship may be established by the fact being inserted in 
the letters of administration, and additionally proven by the affi- 
davits of two disinterested persons, taken before an officer duly 
empowered to administer oaths. 

1534.. If the heirs be minors, guardians should be appointed. 
Payment of arrearages, claimed under a will, will only be made 
after satisfactory proof of the will is adduced to the Accounting 
Officers. 

1535.. Wills of persons in actual service must in all cases, when 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 243 

Accounts. 

possible, be in writing, and attested by an officer. A nuncupative 
will must be reduced to writing immediately, and be attested by at 
least two officers. The executor will be required to produce trie 
original will, or a copy duly authenticated. No payment will be 
made to a creditor until the balance due to the deceased person 
shall have remained in the Treasury, uncalled for by an adminis- 
trator as aforesaid, for six months after information of the death of 
such person shall have been received at the Department ; and where 
the balance exceeds the sum of twenty dollars, no claim of a credi- 
tor will be paid until an advertisement shall have been inserted, for 
three successive days, in the newspapers employed to publish the 
laws in the city of Washington, and also in three successive num- 
bers of a paper nearest where the deceased resided, calling upon 
other claimants to present their claims at the office of the Fourth 
Auditor within four months ; at the end of which term, if the balance 
shall not have been demanded by an administrator appointed as 
aforesaid, the claims which shall have been presented and proved 
before the Accounting Officers will be paid in equal j)roportion, the 
expense of the advertisement having been first defrayed out of the 
sum due to the deceased person at the time of his death. 

1536. .In accordance with the spirit and letter of the laws of the 
United States, the Accounting Officers have determined that the 
arrears found to be due shall be paid, in all cases, to the proper 
parties interested, in preference to attorneys. 

153 7.. Where the supplies for the Navy are obtained without 
advertisement, the account must be accompanied by a certificate of 
the Commandant of the yard or station who has approved the 
requisition for the articles, that the public exigencies required the 
immediate delivery of the articles mentioned in the bill, and that, 
there not being time to advertise for proposals, the articles were 
properly obtained by open purchase, and that the purchase is ap- 
proved for the sum they cost. Where the purchase is made under 
contract growing out of an advertisement for proposals, the fact 
must be certified in like manner upon the voucher. 

1538 ..All transfers of the accounts of officers of the Navy from 
one Paymaster to another will be made directly, and not through 
the office of the Fourth Auditor. The Paymaster by whom the 
transfer is made will give notice of it, and transmit a copy of the 



244 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Accounts. 

account to the Fourth Auditor's Office. When an officer is granted 
leave of absence, placed on furlough, or directed to await orders, 
his account will be transferred to the Fourth Auditor's office, or to 
the Paymaster of the station nearest his intended residence, as he 
may prefer. When the officer desiring the transfer has allotted 
any portion of his pay, the Paymaster, upon transferring his 
account, will make a note thereon of the monthly sum allotted, 
and of the place of payment and date of expiration of the allot- 
ment. 

1539. .Before a Paymaster can receive credit at the Fourth Aud- 
itor's Office for a payment made to an officer for any service, or for 
any amount of money checked on his books as having been ad- 
vanced by a pay agent, he must produce the order under which the 
service has been performed, or the advance made, or a copy thereof, 
with all indorsements, certified by the officer to be such, together 
with a certificate, by the officer, of the time at which he left his 
domicile or station to enter upon such service. The Paymaster will 
always inspect the original order, and satisfy himself that all in- 
dorsements are embraced on the certified copy. 

1540 . . Over-payments other than such as are produced by au- 
thorized advances, will be invariably disallowed, whether made in 
money, clothing, or stores, excepting payments for the commuta- 
tion of rations, or of the spirit part thereof, and excepting also ad- 
vances in clothing or small stores as may have been made by the 
previous order of the Commander of the vessel, upon the ground 
that they were necessary to the health and comfort of the men 
which order, if in writing, must be produced ; and, if verbal, there 
must be a certificate of the Commander who gave it. A general 
approval of the roll in which the advances are charged will not be 
considered sufficient. 

1541. -When the crew of a vessel shall have been paid off at the 
end of a cruise, the Paymaster will transmit to the Paymaster of 
the Marine Corps a pay-roll of all the marines who have been at- 
tached to the vessel during any portion of the cruise, approved by 
the Commander of the vessel and the Commanding Officer of the 
guard. As the utmost dispatch is required in paying off crews, 
Paymasters are directed to forward to the Department, in the most 
expeditious manner, their requisitions for funds for that purpose, 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 245 



Accounts. 

and to draw the attention of the Department to the fact if the 
requisition is not promptly honored. - 

1542. -The second section of the " Joint resolution for the relief 
of Paymasters," &c, approved March 3, 1849, does not authorize an 
advance of public money by the Paymaster to the Commanding 
Officer, or to any other person, on Ms order. But the disbursement 
must be for some service rendered or article furnished. (See Circu- 
lar of Second Comptroller of March 20, 1855.) 

1543 . . Pay officers of the navy will render their final accounts 
and returns to the Fourth Auditor of the Treasury, and the Chief of 
the Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, as soon as practicable after 
the expiration of their cruise, but not exceeding the following time 
after the crew shall have been paid off or transferred : 

For vessels of the first rate sixty days. 

For vessels of the second rate fifty days. 

For vessels of the third rate forty days. 

For vessels of all other rates thirty days. 

Final accounts, in all cases, will be accompanied by the necessary 
vouchers for a complete settlement of such accounts. 

1544 .. Paymasters of shore stations will be allowed, after de- 
tachment, the necessary time for the settlement of their accounts, 
not exceeding the following : 

Paymasters of navy yards at New York and Boston, sixty days. 

Paymasters of navy yards at Portsmouth and Philadelphia, forty 



Paymasters of navy yards at Washington and Mare Island, forty 
days. 

Paymasters of other navy yards and stations, thirty days. 

Inspectors at New York and Boston, forty days. 

Inspectors at other stations, thirty days. 

Paymasters of receiving ships at New York and Boston, sixty 
days. 

Paymasters of receiving ships at other ports, forty days. 

1545 . . When any pay officer shall fail to render his final accounts 
for settlement promptly within the prescribed period, he will be 
considered as delinquent, and will be placed on furlough until fur- 
ther orders. The usual time necessary for packages to reach the 
Department by express from any given point will be allowed, in 



246 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Boards. , 

addition to the time given Iby the above-mentioned regulations, but 
nx> increase of pay will be granted for this additional time. In ex- 
traordinary cases the Department may suspend the operation of this 
rule upon application of the officer and satisfactory evidence that 
the delay was unavoidable. 

ARTICLE XXXIV. 
Boards. 

1546. . Officers on boards are to take their seats in the same order 
of rank or seniority as on courts-martial, executive officers always 
to take precedence. 

1547 . . The senior or presiding member is to preserve order, to de- 
cide upon matters relating to the routine of business, to decide upon 
a recess, and to adjourn the board from day to day, at and to such 
hours as, in his judgment, will be most convenient and proper for 
the transaction of the business before it. Should, however, an ob- 
jection be made by another member of the board to an adjournment 
announced by the senior officer, a vote is to be taken with regard to 
it, and the decision of the majority is to govern. 

1548 . . No board is to transact any other business than an adjourn- 
ment, unless at least two-thirds of the members be present. 

1549. .No member of a board, unless prevented by illness or some 
insuperable difficulty, ordered away by competent authority, or ex- 
cused by the officer ordering it, is to fail in his attendance at the 
appointed times ; and in case of such failure, the senior officer pres- 
ent of the board is to inform the officer ordering it of the fact, and 
also of the reasons of the failure, if known to him, in order that the 
vacancy may be supplied if necessary. 

1550. -A member absent when the investigation of a matter or 
case was held is not to vote upon a decision with regard to it ; but, 
if necessary to arrive at a conclusion, a reinvestigation, with that 
member present, may take place, and thus he may bestow his vote. 

1551. -The junior member of a board is to be the recorder of its 
transactions, but the senior member is to draw the final reports, 
based upon the opinions of a majority, and these reports are to be 
signed by all the concurring members, and to have appended, over 
their signatures, the reasons of dissenting members. 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 247 

United States Naval Asylum. 

15 5 2.. Members of a board are not to leave the vicinity of the 
place at which they are assembled unless authorized by the officer 
ordering it, or his superior. 

1553.. As distinct rules are framed for the Naval Academy, the 
above are not to apply to the boards held thereat, except when com- 
posed of officers not attached to it, or partly by such officers and 
partly by those who are attached to it. 

ARTICLE XXXV. 
United States Xaval Asylum. 

15 5 4.. The Naval Asylum having been placed under the super- 
vision and direction of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, subject to 
the immediate control of the Secretary of the Navy, the following 
regulations have been adopted for its government : 

1. The object of the Asylum is to provide a comfortable home for 
" disabled and decrepit naval officers, seamen, and marines," who 
shall be entitled to the benefits of the institution. 

2. The officers shall consist of a Governor, not below the grade 
of a Captain in the navy, and an Executive Officer, a Surgeon, 
and a Chaplain, to be taken from their respective ranks, together 
with a Secretary to the institution, a Master-at-Arms, a Matron, 
and such officers and laborers, embracing watchmen, cooks, laun- 
dresses, and attendants, as the Department from time to time shall 

authorize. 

3. Applicants for admission into the Asylum will be required to 

produce evidence of twenty years' service in the Navy. They must 
state their age, birthplace, and physical condition, the vessels in 
which they have served, the names of the captains, and the dates of 
such service. They will also be required to produce a naval sur- 
geon's certificate, stating that the applicant is not able to support 
himself by manual labor ; and in cases where pensioned applicants 
desire to commute their pension for places in the Asylum, similar 
certificates will be required ; nor will these regulations be deviated 
from except under extraordinary circumstances, or the written per- 
mission of the Secretary of the Navy. 

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248 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

United States Naval Asylum. 

for the beneficiaries in the Asylum, they will be required, at the 
discretion of the Governor or Commanding Officer, to perform such 
duties, for their benefit and that of the institution, as their age, 
physical abilities, and condition will allow. 

5. For misconduct, (of which drunkenness, fighting, abusive and 
profane language may be enumerated as foremost,) or for any con- 
duct subversive of good order and discipline, beneficiaries will be 
subjected to punishment by stoppage of their pocket-money and 
tobacco, restriction of liberty, confinement in the cells, and curtail- 
ment of the ration, at the discretion of the Governor or Commanding 
Officer, and to dismission from the Asylum, with the sanction of the 
Secretary of the Navy. 

6. The Governor will administer the aiFairs of the institution, re- 
ceive the daily reports of the subordinate officers, make the required 
returns to the Bureau of Yards and Docks, submit annual estimates 
for the probable wants of the institution, and transmit the same so 
as to reach the Bureau on or before the 1st October in each year. 
He will also cause a diary to be kept and forwarded annually to that 
Bureau. The diary will also contain a list of absentees, punishments, 
and misdemeanors of every kind, 

7. The allowance to each beneficiary for clothing is not to exceed 
the amount allowed by the Bureau. 

8. In consideration of their good conduct, and the faithful perform- 
ance from time to time of such duties in and about the Asylum as 
may be directed by the Governor or Commanding Officer, each ben- 
eficiary shall receive one dollar per month. For any violation of 
the regulations, however, this gratuity may be stopped for such 
period as the Governor may deem expedient. 

9. As a reward for meritorious conduct, the Governor or Command- 
ing Officer shall form a corps of petty officers and watchmen (not to 
exceed eight in each class) of the best behaved and most efficient of 
the pensioners, who shall wear a suitable badge of office. It shall 
be the duty of the petty officers to set and relieve the watchmen on 
their respective beats, to attend to the hoisting and lowering of the 
colors, to reporting delinquents, and to the performance of such 
general duties as the Governor or Commanding Officer may direct. 
They shall hold their office for the term of three months, may be 
reappointed at the discretion of the Governor, and shall be allowed 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 249 

United States Naval Asylum. 

two dollars per month including the monthly allowance of one dollar 
for pocket money ; only men of sobriety will be selected for these 
posts. 

10. The products of the grounds shall be expended for the benefit 
of the institution, at the discretion of the Governor or Commanding 
Officer. 

11. No liquors of any kind will be allowed the inmates of the 
institution, nor will it be permitted within its inclosures. A viola- 
tion of this regulation will be deemed a sufficient cause for dismis- 
sal from the Asylum. 

12. The colors will be hoisted and struck daily at the hours usually 
observed in the Navy. 

13. During the summer months the fires will be extiDguished as 
early after meals as practicable. The lights will be extinguished 
at 10 p. m. In the winter the fires and lights, with the exception of 
the furnaces and such others as the Commanding Officer may deem 
necessary, will be extinguished at 11 p. m. The gates and doors 
shall be closed and locked at 10.30 p. m. in winter, and 11 p. m. in 
summer, and shall not be opened until daylight, without permission 
from the Commanding Officer. 

14. Beneficiaries will not be allowed to leave the Asylum without 
the permission of the Executive Officer, and no leave for a longer 
period than a week to be granted without the sanction of the Bureau; 
and if, when on leave, they break their liberty without a satisfac- 
tory explanation to the Governor, they will not be permitted to 
return, except by an order from the Bureau. 

15. Any beneficiary who shall sell or otherwise dispose of his 
clothing shall have the value thereof deducted from his allowance 
of pocket-money and tobacco, and shall be restricted to the limits 
of the Asylum for a period not less than three months. 

16. All complaints shall be referred to the Governor or Command- 
ing Officer, in the same respectful manner as the usage of the service 
requires on shipboard. Under no circumstances, however aggra- 
vated, will a resort to any other method be tolerated, except it be a 
respectful appeal to the Secretary of the Navy, through the Bureau 
of Yards and Docks. 

17. Divine service will be performed on Sunday at 10 a. m., at 
which hour the beneficiaries will be required to attend, except in 



250 REGULATIONS FOR THE 



Arms of the United States — Seamen Gunners. 

cases of sickness, or permission to the contrary having been obtained 
in writing from the Executive Officer. 



ARTICLE XXXYI. 

Arms of the United States. 

1555.. Arms: Paleways of thirteen pieces, argent and gules; a 
chief azure ; the escutcheon on the breast of the American eagle dis- 
played, proper, holding in his dexter talon an olive branch, and in his 
sinister a bundle of thirteen arrows, all proper ; and in his beak a scroll, 
inscribed with this motto : "E Pluribus JJnumP For the crest : Over 
the head of the eagle, which appears above the escutcheon, a glory 
breaking through a cloud, proper, and surrounding thirteen stars, 
forming a constellation, argent, and on an azure field. 

ARTICLE XXXVII. 
Seamen Gunners. 

1556.. American seamen and ordinary seamen, not under 22, nor 
over 35 years of age, who desire to enlist for this branch of the ser- 
vice, will undergo the usual physical examination, and will also be 
examined by a board of two line officers, as to their general fitness 
and intelligence, and as to their proficiency in reading, spelling, and 
the first four rules of arithmetic. 

155 7.. If accepted they are to be enlisted for five years, but no 
ordinary seaman is to be enlisted and accepted as a candidate for 
the position, unless he shall evince ability of a superior order, and 
be especially recommended by the Examining Board of line officers. 

1558 ..When enlisted, they will be transferred to the Gunnery 
Ship, where they will be instructed in the following branches, viz : 

Arithmetic — Vulgar and Decimal Fractions ; 

Great Guns — Broadside and Pivot exercises ; 

Artillery — Field and Boat Gun exercises ; 

Infantry — School of the Soldier ; School of the Company ; Skirmish 
Drill ; 

Broadsword and Pistol exercises. 






NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 251 



General Instructions. 



GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS. 

Nomenclature of guns and carriages ; 

Use of spare implements at the gun ; 

Inspection and preservation of guns on shipboard ; 

Taking vent impressions ; 

Storage of magazine, shell-room, and ordnance store-room ; 

Precautions to be observed about the magazine or shell-room ; 

Use of flood and discharge cocks ; 

Filling powder ; 

Filling and strapping shell : 

Fitting boat ammunition ; 

Fitting and cutting fuzes (Navy time, Bormann, and peculiar 
makes;) 

Arrangement and use of sights on guns ; 

Use of drift bar ; 

Use of rifle gun ; 

Cleaning and oiling small-arms ; 

Fitting and storage of articles in boats armed for service ; 

Preparation of gun blacking, and care of battery ; 

Mounting, dismounting, and slinging guns ; 

Care and preservation of ordnance stores ; 

Keeping expenditure books and ledger, and making out returns, &c. 

1559 . . Candidates will be examined, from time to time, by a board 
established for that purpose, and when found qualified, will receive 
a certificate to that effect, and be rated Seamen Gunners from the 
date thereof, with the pay of thirty-two dollars per month, and will 
rank all petty officers, except the Master-at-Arms. 

15 60.. A proportion of Seamen Gunners will be drafted to each 
vessel when ready for her crew. 

1561 . . The several ratings of Gunner's Mates will be filled by Sea- 
men Gunners, and preference should be given them in the other 
ratings of petty officers that they may be qualified to fill ; but the 
pay of men thus rated shall not be reduced by reason of such rating. 

1562.. None but Seamen Gunners will be eligible to the position 
Gunner or Acting Gunner. 

1563 . . Seamen Gunners, whatever specific ratings they may hold, 



252 REGULATIONS FOR THE U, S. NAVY. 

General Instructions. 

are, as far as the service will admit, to be employed as instructors, 
and are to be stationed as Captains of Guns. When employed as 
instructors on board of vessels, they will, at the discretion of the 
Commanding Officer, be excused from other duties while the day 
drills are going on. 

1564 . . These men are to have the letters S. G. placed against their 
names on the ship's books, &c, no matter what other specific rating 
they may hold. 

1565 . . Seamen Gunners will be entitled to all the benefits of the 
continuous service certificate, upon every continuous re-enlistment 
of five years, and a register of their names should, at the time of 
their enlistment, be forwarded to the Bureau for record. As it is 
desired to make this the favorite branch of the service, every en- 
couragement should be given to promote the end in view, by the 
selection of men of good character and ability as seamen. 

1566.. They may receive, during their term of enlistment, leave 
of absence of not less than iive months. 



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278 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Form No. 15. 

Letter to he given to Prize Master oy a Commanding Officer making a 
seizure or capture. 

u. s. s. , 



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You will take charge of the — , captured on the day 

-, 18 — , by — - — , and proceed with the said prize to the port 
and there deliver her, with the accompanying papers, 
(which were all that were found on hoard,) and the persons sent as 
witnesses, to the Judge of the United States District Court or to the 
United States Prize Commissioners at that place, taking his or their 
receipt for the same. You will not deliver either the vessel, the 
papers, or the witnesses to the order of any other person or parties 
unless directed to act otherwise by the Navy Department or Flag 
Officer commanding the squadron to which you are attached. 

On your arrival at you will immediately report in person to 

the Commanding or Senior Navy Officer of the navy yard or station 
thereat, and show him these instructions ; and you will report also, 
by letter, to the Secretary of the Navy, stating in full the particulars 
of your passage home, and transmit to him, through the Commandant 
or Senior Officer, the names of the officers and men composing your 
prize crew, and any communications for the Department with which 
you may be charged. You will, on your arrival, allow no person to 
leave the vessel without permission from the Commandant of the 
station, nor go on shore yourself except on your necessary duty. 
You will not sleep out of the vessel while in charge, nor allow any 
but official boats to approach, and only official persons on duty to 
come on board. 

You will, without delay, after reporting, call upon the United States 

District Attorney at , show him these instructions, which are 

issued by order of the Secretary of the Navy, and give him all the 
information in your power respecting the circumstances connected 
with the capture of the . 

You will then report, and show these instructions, to the Naval Prize 
Commissioner of the district, who is hereby directed to ascertain and 
notify you of the earliest date at which your attendance shall no longer 
be required by the court, and to indorse the notification on this paper. 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 279 

You will, on being discharged from attendance, if not in the mean- 
time, instructed, and whenever you need instructions respecting your- 
self, officers, or prize crew, immediately report to the Commandant 
of the nearest yard or station or Senior Officer for such instructions. 

You will particularly bear in mind and strictly observe the injunc- 
tions of the law and of the Department respecting captured property 
or persons under your charge, and recollect that you will be held 
rigorously responsible for any mismanagement of the trust confided 
to you. 

You, your officers, and prize crew, are hereby detached from the 

, and you will be careful to apply for and take with you their 

pay accounts and your own, to be presented to the Paymaster of the 
yard or station at or nearest to the port to which you are ordered. 

The sea-pay of yourself and officers will continue while in charge 
of the prize or under the orders of a Flag Officer or Senior Navy 
Officer afloat ; but your name will not be borne on the books of the 
vessel from which you are detached, and you will not be entitled to 
share in prizes made by such vessel after your detachment. 



Commanding the U. S. 
To , 



Circular. 

The attention of Commanding Officers in the navy is called to the 
following extract, in relation to their duties, from the twenty-fifth 
article, section sixteen, of the act of July 16, 1862, for the better 
government of the Navy : 

" He shall, whenever he orders officers and men to take charge of 
a prize and proceed to the United States, and whenever officers and 
men are sent from his ship, for ivhatever cause, take care that each 
man be furnished with a complete statement of his account, specify- 
ing the date of his enlistment and the period and terms of his ser- 
vice, which account shall be signed by the Commanding Officer and 
Purser." 

These requirements must be strictly complied with, and, in addi- 



280 



REGULATIONS FOR THE 



tion ; duplicate statements must be forwarded bo the Paymaster of 
the vessel or station to which the men are sent, together with a de- 
scriptive list of the men sect, according to the form here annexed : 





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Form No. 16. 
Letter of application for an examination. 



18- 



To the Secretary of the Navy : 

I respectfully make application for an examination as to my quali- 
fications for appointment as *• in the United States Navy. I 

was — — years of age on the day of — , 18 — . I was born 

in , county of , and State of , and I reside in 



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and State of 



I forward herewith 



testimonials of moral and physical qualifications. 
Very respectfully, 



• This blank to he filled up with the position the applicant desires to obtain, 
as Mate, Sailmaker, Carpenter, Gunner, Boatswain, Third Assistant Engineer, 
Assistant Civil Engineer, Assistant Naval Constructor, Assistant Paymaster, or 
Assistant Surgeon. No professional examination being required of candidates 
for the office of Chaplain or Professor of Mathematics, except at the Naval Acad- 
emy, their application will be the same as the above, striking out the words, 
" examination as to my qualifications for." 



NAYY OF THE UNITED STATES. 281 

Form No. 17. 
Letter of acceptance. 

,18-. 

To the Secretary of the Navy : 

I hereby acknowledge the receipt of an appointment (or warrant 

or commission) as in the Navy of the United States, dated 

, 18 — , and inform the Department of my acceptance of the 

same. I inclose herewith the oath of allegiance, duly signed and 
certified. 

Very respectfully, 



U. S. Navy. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That hereafter every person 
elected or appointed to any office of honor or profit under the gov- 
ernment of the United States, either in the civil, military, or naval 
departments of the public service, excepting the President of the 
United States, shall, before entering upon the duties of such office, 
and before being entitled to any of the salary or other emoluments 
thereof, take and subscribe the following oath or affirmation : 

u I, A. B., do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I have never volun- 
tarily borne arms against the United States since I have been a 
citizen thereof; that I have voluntarily given no aid, countenance, 
counsel, or encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility 
thereto ; that I have neither sought, nor accepted, nor attempted to 
exercise the functions of any office whatever, under any authority 
or pretended authority in hostility to the United States ; that I have 
not yielded a voluntary support to any pretended government, 
authority, power, or constitution within the United States, hostile 
or inimical thereto. And I do further swear (or affirm) that, to the 
best of my knowledge and ability, I will support and defend the 
Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and 
domestic ; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same ; 
that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or 
purpose of evasion ; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the 
duties of the office on which I am about to enter : So help me God." 



282 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

Which said oath, so taken and signed, shall be preserved among 
the files of the court, house of Congress, or department to which the 
said office may appertain. And any person who shall falsely take the 
said oath shall be guilty of perjury, and on conviction, in addition 
to the penalties now prescribed for the offense, shall be deprived of 
his office and rendered incapable forever after of holding any office 
or place under the United States. 



Form No. 18. 
Article of agreement for . ^ 

I do hereby agree to enter the Navy of the United States as , 

and to repair on board such vessel and at such time as may be ordered, 
and to remain in said capacity till the expiration of the service of 
the vessel, unless sooner discharged by the proper authority, or under 
the provisions of paragraph No. 892 of the Regulations of the Navy. 

I do oblige and subject myself during my service as to com- 
ply with and be obedient to such laws, regulations, and discipline 
of the Navy as are or that may be established by Congress or other 
competent authority. 



Witness : 



Note. — The Medical Officers will testify (on the reverse) to the physical fitness 
of the person selected ; or, if he exhibit defects, they are to be noted. 



Form No. 19. 
Surveys. 

u. s. s. , 

, 18-, 

Sir : I respectfully request that a survey may be ordered upon the 
below-mentioned articles in my department, which I believe to be 



Respectfully, 
To , 



Commanding. 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 283 

u. s. s. 

— , 18—. 



Gentlemen : You will hold a strict and careful survey on the arti- 
cles above mentioned, in the department, and report to me, 

in triplicate, their condition. If, in your judgment, they are unfit 
for use, you will state the particulars in which they are so, and the 
probable cause which has made them so ; and you will include in 
your statement the names of the contractor and inspector, if they 
can be obtained, by marks or otherwise, and the invoice prices of the 
articles, together with your recommendation as to their disposition. 

Respectfully, 



Commanding \ 



To- 



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18- 



SiR : In obedience to your order of the , we have held a 

strict and careful survey on the articles in the — department 

therein mentioned, and report that in our opinion . 

Respectfully, 



To , 

Commanding. 
Approved : 



Commanding. 

I certify that the foregoing articles recommended to be 

were so disposed of in my presence. 



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Form No. 21. 

Return of persons enlisted at the United States Naval Rendezvous, — 
during the week ending at the hour of closing, Saturday, 18 — . 



285 



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Total. 



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To 



Commanding Rendezvous. 



Commanding TJ. S. Naval Station. 



Form No. 22. 
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This is to certify that No. 

charged from the United States ■ 
Dated this . 



Approved : 



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• and from the naval service. 



Paymaster. 



Captain. 



286 



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Honorable discharge from the United States Navy. 



enlisted ■ 



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This is to certify that No. — 

for three years, - — - years of age, feet — — inches high, — 

eyes, — hair, complexion, has , horn at — , " as a 

testimonial of fidelity and obedience," is this day "honorably dis- 
charged " from the United States and from the naval service of 

the United States. Now, according to the provisions of the second 
section of the act approved March 2, 1855, if within three months 

from this date the above-described shall present this 

his "honorable discharge" at any United States naval rendezvous, 
and if found physically qualified, and shall re-enlist for three years 
or longer, then he shall be entitled to pay during the said three 
months equal to that to which he would have been entitled if he 
had been employed in actual service. 



Paymaster. 



Approved : 



Commanding Officer. 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES, 287 

Form No. 24. 

Surgeon's Office, Navy Yard, 

,18-. , 

Sir: I have examined, [state the name in fall,] who states that 

he was born in, [name of town and State,] on the day of 

*— , 18 — , and find that he is [not] physically qualified to per- 
form the duties of a [name the grade] in the Navy of the United 
States, [if not qualified add,] because he has [state the disability.] 
I am, very respectfully. 



Surgeon. 

To , 

Commanding TJ. S. Naval Station. 



Form No. 25. 

Commanding Office)' } s report of death or disability in line of duty to estab- 
lish claim for Pension. 

U. S. — ■ — , 

, 18-. 

Sir : I have to report the [death or disability] of — , a 



■ in the United States Navy, while serving under my com- 



mand. The [death or disability] of the above named 

occurred on the day of — — — , 18 — , [here state where] and 

in the line of duty. 

[Here state briefly, but clearly, the facts known to Commanding 
Officer, as to circumstances attending the death or wounding, or 
other cause of disability. When the facts are not known by Com- 
manding Officer, give an abstract of the statement of an officer or 
other person having knowledge thereof. When death or disabil- 
ity occurs from disease alone, give the opinion of the Medical Offi- 
cer, as to the origin of the disease. But in all cases the Command- 
ing Officer will distinctly state his own opinion whether the per- 
son was or was not in the line of his duty at the time of his death, 
or when he received the wound or injury, or contracted the disease 
producing his death or disability.] 

[Here add as may be proper.] 

I inclose herewith the report of Surgeon — — — , as to the nature 



288 REGULATIONS FOR THE 

and degree of the disability (or as to the origin of disease, if neces- 
sary) in this case, and (if requisite) the statement of — in refer- 
ence to the canse of death, or origin of wonnds or injury, prodncing 
disability. 

Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 



Commanding United States — . 

Hon. -, 

Secretary of the Navy, 

Note. — In all cases where testimony other than the personal knowledge of the 
Commanding Officer is requisite, snch testimony will be taken in writing, and 
in triplicate. Will he signed hy the officer or other person making it, and 
approved and forwarded by Commanding Officer with his report. 



Form No. 26. 
Surgeon's Report of Death. 

U.S.— 



, 18-. 

Sir : I have to report the death of , a ■ in the 

United States Navy, serving under your command. He died on the 

day of ■, 18 — , [here state where] of (casualty, disease,) 

as set forth in the record of his case, as follows : 

[Here state briefly but clearly the facts as to cause of death ; if 
the death has occurred from disease alone, state the original cause 
of disease, and the time when incurred as exactly as may be practi- 
cable.] 



Surgeon United States Navy. 
To -, 



Commanding United States ■ 



Form No. 27. 
Surgeon's Report of Disability. 

U.S. — — 



,18-. 



Sir : I have to report that , a in the United 

States Navy, serving under your command, is disabled by (disease 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATER. 289 

by common name, wound, or injury.) (If by disease, state the 
original cause, and the time when incurred, as exactly as may be 
practicable. If by wound or injury, describe the same.) 

He is thereby not only incapacitated for duty as aforesaid, but in 
the opinion of the undersigned is (one-fourth, half) disabled from 
obtaining his subsistence by manual labor. 



Surgeon United States Navy. 

To , 

Commanding, United States Navy. 



Form No. 28. 
Application for Disability Survey, from Surgeon of a Naval Hospital. 

U. S. Naval Hospital, 



,18-. 

Sir : I have to request that a survey may be held on 

a — in the United States Navy, received from the United States 

on the , and now under treatment in this hospi- 
tal. 

He is (partially or wholly) disabled, and his disability is likely to 
be permanent. 

Very respectfully, 



Surgeon in charge of Hospital. 
To , 

Commandant (Navy Yard or Station.) 

U. S. Navy Yard, 

,18-. 

To 

Captain , 

Commander , 

Surgeon , 

Gentlemen : You will hold survey as recommended above, in ac- 
cordance with the regulations under the head of Pensions, and report 
in triplicate. You will particularly state all facts you may be able 
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290 REGULATIONS FOE, THE 

to elicit, in regard to origin of disability, even when yon do not find 
it to be in line of dnty. 
Very respectfully, 



Commanding Navy Yard. 



Form No. 29. 

Report of Survey on case of disability, to determine if cause of disability 
originated in line of duty. 

U. S. Naval Hospital, 

, 18-. 

Sir : In compliance with your order of the , we have held 

a survey upon — , a in the United States Navy, 

now in this hospital, and have to report that he (is or is not par- 
tially or wholly) disabled, and that his disability (was or was not) 
incurred in the line of duty. 

He is disabled (one-fourth, one-half, or wholly) from [here state 
the particulars of disability] and his disability was occasioned by 
[here state the circumstances under which the disability was in- 
curred.] 

Very repectfully, 

, Captain. 

, Commander. 

— , Surgeon. 



To- 



Commandant Navy Yard. 



Form No. 30. 

Report of death, and order for board to determine if cause of death orig- 
inated in line of duty. 

U. S. Naval Hospital, 

, 18-. 

Sir : I have to report the death, to-day, in this hospital, of , 

in the United States Navv. He was received from the 



NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 291 

United States on the , with (disease, wound, or injury,) 

and his death was caused by . 

Very respectfully, 

To , 



Surgeon in charge of Hospital. 



Commanding U. S. (Navy Yard or Station.) 

Navy Yard, 

, 18- 

To 

Captain , 



Commander ■ 
Surgeon ■ 



Gentlemen: You are hereby appointed a board to take testimo- 
ny, according to regulations under the head of Pensions, in order 

to determine if the above-named was or was not in 

the line of his duty when (the disease was incurred, or the wound 
or injury was received,) which caused his death. You will report 
in triplicate. 

Very respectfully. 



Commanding Navy Yard. 



Form No. 31. 
Beport of Board to determine if cause of death originated in line of duty. 

U.S : - , 

,18-. 



Sir : In compliance with your order of instant, we have taken 

testimony, in order to determine if the cause of the death of 

a in the United States Navy, originated in the line of duty, 

and have to report as follows : [Here state briefly the facts elicited, 
as to the cause of death, and distinctly, whether or not, it originated 
in the line of duty.] 

Very respectfully, 

, Captain. 

, Commander. 

, Surgeon. 

To , 

Commanding Navy Yard. 



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A. 

No. of paragraph. 

Absence : (See Leaves of Absence.) 

of a commander-in-chief from Ms command 51, 145 

of the watch officers of a vessel 191 

of medical officers, when there are two 192 

of the officers and crew from a vessel 224 

of the executive officer from a vessel 355 

of marine officers when there is more than one on board 1321 

of a commandant of a yard or station from his command 1425 

Absence without leave : 

names of absentees to be entered on the log 445 

the consent of commanding officers required to absence 770 

every possible endeavor to be made to guard against. . 1078 

rewards to be offered in cases of 1079 

when to be regarded as desertion and when as strag- 
gling 1082 

Accommodation ladders : 

the use of. when one or more are shipped 723 

Accounts : 

of sales of the effects of persons dying on board ship.. 239 

lost by the wreck or capture of a vessel 297 

of transferred men 552 

of marines who die, desert, or are transferred . . .' 569 

of stores by the yeoman, how to be kept 594, 595, 596 

of yeoman, when a ship is to be paid off 597 

of a vessel, duties of the commander 559, 960, 965 

of officers transferred, to be furnished them 1052 

of persons, not officers, transferred 1053 

of transferred men, sent without their accounts 1054 

of supplies furnished to a navy yard 1272 to 1274 

of marines on board vessels, by whom kept, &c 1320 

to accompany recruits, when transferred 1374 

of officers paid by the Fourth Auditor, when settled. . 1521 
of disbursing officers to be kept separate under each 

bond 1523 

of paymasters who transmit a summary statement, &c 1524 
what must be transmitted by a paymaster of a sea-going 

vessel or on a foreign station, to the Auditor 1525 

of paymasters on receiving ships or at shore stations. . 1526 

paymasters' books to be forwarded to Fourth Auditor. 1527 



296 INDEX. 

Xo. of paragraph. 
Accounts — Continued. 

transportation of, to be pre-paid by disbursing officers, 

except 1528 

a general witness to signatures on pay-roll not suffi- 
cient.... 1529 

of deceased officers, seamen, or marines 1530 

to whom balances due deceased persons are paid 1531 

when the balance due a deceased person does not exceed 

$100 1532 

of deceased persons, provisions concerning 1535 

arrears paid to the parties in preference to attorneys. 1536 

for open purchases, how certified. 1537 

of officers transferred from one paymaster to another. . 1537 

for over-payments will be disallowed, except 1540 

of the crew of a vessel at the end of a cruise 1541 

final, of" paymasters, time limited for rendition of 1543 

of paymasters of shore stations, time allowed for settle- 
ment 1544 

final, failure of pay officer to render promptly 1 545 

Admiral : 

commands a fleet or fleets 6 

special duty of, to command fleets, in time of war 19 

to exercise supervision over fleets preparing for sea, &c. 20 
to ascertain damages after an action and inform depart- 
ment = 21 

to keep a record of naval forces of foreign powers ..... 22 

to obtain information, make suggestions, &c 23 

during absence or illness the Vice-Admiral to perform 

his duties 24 

classed as a line officer 630 

embarked as a passenger, to exercise command 641 

when his flag is hoisted and on visits of inspection — when 

he assumes command 665 

ceremonies when he relinquishes command afloat 666 

ceremonies on leaving, or returning from, his ship — 

absent at night 667 

his flag not to be hoisted on a visit without his order. . 674 

employed on shore and visiting a vessel on duty 677 

assuming or relinquishing command of a shore station. 680 

where his distinguishing flag is to be carried 753 

in command of shore station, to wear and hoist flag. . 758 
distinctive flag of. (See Signal Book.) 
Advances of pay: 

to officers bound on a cruise 566, 1299 

not to be made by recruiting officers without orders. . . 1362 

by recruiting officers, provisions concerning 1363, 1364, 1367 

to recruits, by the commander of a receiving ship 1368 

refunded by minors, how it shall be disposed of 1430 

to masters-at-arms, yeomen, apothecaries' and pay- 
masters 7 yeomen 1518 






INDEX. 297 

~No. of paragraph. 

Africa. (See Coast of Africa.) 

Agreements : 

to. be signed by certain petty officers 892 

Ale : 

not excluded by law from vessels of the navy. 841 

Aliens : • . 

claiming discharge, must apply to the courts . . 1056 

Allotments : 

commander of a vessel to impress the importance of. . - 189 

general provisions concerning 1095 

of persons enlisting in the navy 1096 

duties of paymaster — continuance of, after capture 1097 

Allowances : 

for traveling expenses of officers and others 1488, 1489 

for traveling expenses of enlisted men honorably dis- 
charged 1490 

for traveling expenses of officers, rate, &c 1491 

for traveling expenses of officers, the evidence required 1492 
not allowed to paymasters visiting Washington to settle 

accounts 1493 

for traveling expenses, not allowed to paymasters' yeo- 
men and apothecaries, unless 1494 

to enlisted men, or re-enlistment after honorable dis- 
charge 1495 

to paymasters for loss of clothing and small stores 1496 

to persons re-enlisting or detained after the term of ser- 
vice 1497 

for the subsistence of prisoners on board public vessels 1498 
not permitted, for subsistence of officers ordered to take 

passage 1499 

for the subsistence of pilots on vessels 1500 

not allowed for the subsistence of ministers, on vessels 1501 

of money in lieu of the spirit ration 1502 

for funeral expenses, will be paid, when 1503 

to a marine officer commanding a guard, when 1504 

not granted for disbursement of money, or other duty, 

except 1505 

not granted as commissions for purchases on foreign 

stations 1506 

Apartments : 

of officers on ship board 966, 967, 969 to 974 

of officers as passengers 968 

state-rooms opening into the ward-room country 975, 976 

to be occupied by the warrant officers 977 

state-rooms in the cock-pit and orlop or berth deck 978 

Apothecaries : 

to rank as petty officers 

their appointment, obligations, and physical examina- 
tion 892 



298 INDEX. 

Ho. of paragraph. 
Apothecaries — Continued. 

appointed by the surgeon of the vessel 893 

not allowed traveling expenses, unless • 1 494 

conditions of advance-pay when ordered on distant ser- 
vice 1518 

Appointments : 

of commissioned or warrant officers, examinations re- 
quired 860 

if not made within one year, candidate to be re-examined 876 

appointees to forward letter of acceptance and oath. . . 882 

of secretaries and clerks 891 

of master-at-arms ? yeomen, apothecaries, nurses, and 

paymasters' yeomen 892 

of apothecaries and nurses by the surgeon < 893 

of clerks and yeomen to paymaster, &c 894 

of chief of staff to commander-in-chief 895 

on foreign stations of fleet officers 896 

Appointments, Acting : 

when and by whom to be made 883, 884 

to temporary vacancies on vessels not within the 

United States : - 885 

when not to be made , 886 

to specify the vessel on which it takes effect 887 

officers conferring . . . ? 888 

appointees to wear the uniform and use the title of the 

grade 889 

warrant officers who have served six months at sea, 

under 903 

when seamen may be promoted to acting master's mates 1093 

confirmed by the department, are deemed valid 1515 

Approval : 

of requisitions, responsibility attaching to, &c 1469 

of muster-books or muster-rolls, responsibility of 1470 

of transcripts from rolls sent with transferred men. .. 1471 

of bills for articles purchased or services rendered 1472 

by a bureau, of requisitions for purchases in open 

"market 1473 

by an officer that will authorize the payment of money 1474 
bureaus not to pass bills that are not approved by the 

commanding officer 1475 

by an officer on a foreign station, relinquishing his 

command 1476 

before leaving a port where supplies have been re- 
ceived 1477 

officers to examine articles purchased by an agent 1479 

of articles requiring inspection by the inspector 1480 

the name or names of contractors required 1481 

Architects : 

in a navy yard to be under direction of the civil engi- 
neer 1240 



INDEX. 299 

Xo. of paragraph. 

Armorers : 

to rank as petty officers 648 

Armorers' Mates : 

to rank as petty officers 648 

Arms of the United States: 

escutcheon and crest 1555 

Army, Officers of the : 

with troops embarked, official visits 100 

visiting a naval vessel or station 701 to 703 

to be treated with courtesy and respect 724 

not to exercise command over naval vessels or forces.. 844 

apartments and messes, when passengers in vessels of 

war 982 

- apartments, on a navy transport ship, with troops 983 

messes, on a navy transport ship, with troops 984 

on duty in a naval vessel, to be subject to the regula- 
tions, &c 985 

as passengers on a naval vessel, not to be subject to 

the regulations, &c 986 

not to hold courts-martial or punish, on a navy vessel, 

unless 987 

Arrest : 

officers under, their movements restricted 805 

of intoxicated men, officers not to interfere personally. 819 

reports of, to be forwarded by commanding officers. .. 850 

Assistant Engineers. (See Engineers, Assistant) 

Assistant Naval Constructors. (See Xaucrf Construct- 
ors, Assistant.) 

Assistant Paymasters. (See Paymasters, Assistant.) 

Assistant Surgeons. (See Surgeons, Assistant.) 

Asylum, Naval. (See Naval Asylum.) 

M. 

Bakers : 

to rank as petty officers 648 

Barrels, Empty : 

to be sold, if they cannot be sent to a station 834 

Batteries : 

duty of commander-in-chief on going to sea, as to 40 

to be inspected every morning and evening 176 

to be examined twice during each watch, at night 411 

in passing, the colors of a vessel to be hoisted 790 

Beer: 

not excluded by law from naval vessels 841 

Bill-book. (See Books.) 

Bills : 

quarter, watch, fire, and other station, to be hung up . . 172 
quarter, watch, fire, and cleaning, of engineer's depart- 
ment ' 331, 493 



300 INDEX. 

No. of paragraph. 

Bills — Continued. 

quarter, watch, fire, and station, duty of executive 

officer . . .' 344, 349 

Bills or Health: 

vessels to have, before going to sea 202 

Blockade : 

laws of, to he observed 95 

Boards : 

of medical officers, when disabled persons are sent home 63 

for the examination of foremen in navy yards 1251 

how officers on, are to take their seats 1546 

presiding officer, his powers and duties 1547 

a quorum required for business other than adjourn- 
ment . , 1548 

proceedings, when a member fails to attend 1549 

proceedings, when a member is absent during an in- 
vestigation 1550 

the recorder of, the final reports, &c. 1551 

members of, not to leave the vicinity, unless 1552 

when held at Naval Academy 1553 

Boards of Survey. (See Surveys.) 

Boarding-Netting : 

wire, to be kept in serviceable condition 617 

Boats : 

duties of the commander-in-chief in relation to 73 

duties of the commander of a vessel when leaving 

port - 185 

on entering port, times of leaving and returning of 223 

to be in readiness for persons at the expiration of their 

leave 225 

to be kept slung up at the davits 245 

sent on expeditions, the commander to be designated.. 275 

to have one officer assigned to each 381 

sent on expeditions, to be furnished with supplies 382 

when they leave the ship, duty of watch officers 415, 416 

to be always ready for lowering, duty of watch officers 419 

to be kept in good condition by the carpenter 586 

meeting or passing, ceremonies to be observed 717 

order of, in funeral processions 741 

distinctive marks of rank carried on their bows 757 to 760 

captains and commanders in, how to be distinguished- 759 

in foreign countries to carry the national flag 762 

when not to be regarded as on detached duty 780 

crews of, to have breakfast before leaving the vessel . . 947 

not to be away from the ship after sunset, unless 948 

Boatswains : 

to report twice a day to the executive officer 357 

to examine articles and stores, and report 469 

responsible for articles not in charge of the yeomen.. . 470, 592 



INDEX. 301 

I No. of paragraph. 

Boatswains — Continued. 

to request a survey of stores that are injured 471 

to be watchful of the person having charge of the 

stores, &c 472 

when a ship is about to be dismantled 473 

to report twice daily to the executive officer 474 

on deck, and when ail hands are called 475 

the care of rigging, anchors, booms, boats, &c 476 

the care of masts, setting-stays, rigging, &c 477 

to be attentive when working up junk, &c 478 

when the ship is preparing for battle 479 

considered as line officers 631 

when the President of the United States is received. . . 655 
on the departure and reception of an admiral, vice- 
admiral, rear-admiral, and commodore 667 to 670 

when the commander of a vessel is received, &c 679 

to attend at the arrival and departure of officers 685 

qualifications of a candidate for appointment 862 

board for the examination of 874 

warrants after six months' service under acting ap- 
pointment 903 

apartment to be occupied by on board ship 977 

sea service of, from what date to be computed 1512 

Boatswains' Mates : 

to rank as petty officers of the line 647 

to attend at the reception and departure of officers. .679, 685, 686 
Books : 

order, officers to note verbal orders in 135 

conduct, to be kept by the executive officer 229 

signal, muster, and expense, to be left with successor 

in office 270 

muster, pay, and receipt, to be saved in case of disaster 295 

liberty and conduct, to be kept by the executive officer 350 

punishment, to be kept by the executive officer 362 

remark, to be kept by the navigator 449 

for computations, to be kept by the navigator 451 

remark, to be delivered by the navigator to his succes- 
sor 461 

expense, to be submitted to commanding officer by 

yeoman 596 

yeoman's expense, when a shij) is paid off, &c 597 

night order, to be kept by the commander 626 

of hydrographic information, to be kept 629 

of allowances, suggestions for improvements in to be 

made 856 

general abstract expense, provisions in relation to 965 

bill, to be kept by commandants of yards 1134 

muster, approval of, by commanding officer 1470, 1471 

allowed a vessel, navigation officer to receipt for 1486 



302 INDEX. 

* No. of paragraph. 

Books — Continued. 

allowed a vessel, where kept aud under whose charge . . 1487 
of paymasters to be sent to Auditor, when accounts are 
rendered 1525 to 1528 

Boys : 

to be instructed by a competent person ... 228, 227 

to be instructed by the chaplain 577 

the chaplain's duties, when there is no schoolmaster on 

board 578 

the enlistment of 1344 

their instruction on receiving ships 1378 

extra pay on re-enlistment, after honorable discharge . . 1495 

Broad Pennants. (See Pennants.) 

Bureaus in the Navy Department : 

enumeration of the names of. 1457 

orders, circulars, and instructions issued by 1458 

official letter to, how they should be addressed 1459 

directions for correspondence with 1433 to 1468 

not to pass bills unless approved by commanding offi- 
cers 1475 

Bureau of Construction and Repair : 

its relations with naval constructors of yards 1228, 1229, 1234 

its relations with officers in charge of stores 1264 

Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting : 

its relations with the equipment officer of a ves- 
sel 424, 425, 430, 434 

when a yeoman's accounts shall be referred to 1061 

officers receiving men without proper lists, to report to 1062 

blanks for honorable discharges to be furnished by 1064 

its relations with equipment officers of yards 1173 to 1183 

its relations with officers in charge of stores 1264 

recruiting officers to report to, weekly 1361, 1366 

surveys of recruits to be transmitted to 1369 

reports of changes on a receiving vessel to be sent to . . 1388 

Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: 

its relations with surgeons of navy yards 1204 

its relations with officers in charge of stores 1264 

reports of surveys on account of disability sent to 1411 

Bureau of Navigation: 

its relations with navigation officers 1161 

its relations with officers in charge of stores 1264 

Bureau of Ordnance : 

when a yeoman's accounts shall be referred to 1061 

its relations with ordnance officers of yards.. 1150, 1153 to 1160 
its relations with officers in charge of stores 1264 

Bureau of Provisions and Clothing : 

its relations with inspecting officers at yards 1224, 1225 

its relations with officers in charge of stores 1264 

at end of cruise, pay officers to render accounts to 1543 



INDEX. 303 

No. of paragraph. 

Bureau of Steam Engineering : 

its relations with chief engineers of yards 1188, 1191 to 1197 

its relations with officers in charge of stores 1264 

Bureau of Yards and Docks : 

civil engineers of yards to sign reports to 1245 

to superintend the Naval Asylum 1554 

C. 

Cabinet, Members of : 

visiting a naval vessel or station, how received 658, 682 

Cabins : 

regulations for the occupation of by officers 966 to 974 

Candidates : 

for admission to Naval Academy 857 

for admission to the Navy, in any capacity 858, 859 

for appointment as master's mate 861 

for a boatswain's appointment 862 

for a gunner's appointment 863 

for a carpenter's appointment 864 

for a sailmaker's appointment 865 

for a second assistant engineer's appointment 866 

for the office of assistant naval constructor 859, 867 

for the office of assistant paymaster 868 

for the office of assistant surgeon 869 

for the office of chaplain 870 

for the appointment of secretary or clerks . . 871 

boards for the examination of 872 to 874 

who will be preferred in admission and promotion 875 

' re-examined if not anpointed within a year 876 

failing to present themselves after permission is obtained 877 
making false statements to a board, will be dropped . . 881 
pjassing examination, will be eligible to appointment-- 882 
for promotion to first assistant engineer, require- 
ments of 1079 

for promotion to chief engineer 1080 

for the position of foreman 1251, 1252 

for the position of seaman gunner 1559 

Captains : 

command and employment of 10 

classed as line officers of the Navy 630 

salutes and ceremonies to be given to 679, 681 

in boats, to wear a gilt ball on the end of boat staff*. . . 759 

regarded as cabin officers and entitled to mess therein . 967 

Captains of Afterguard : 

to rank as petty officers of the line 647 

Captains of Forecastle : 

to rank as petty officers of the line 647 

Captains of Hold: 

to rank as petty officers 648 



304 INDEX. 

No. of paragraph. 

Captains of Tops : 

to rank as petty officers of the line 647 

Carpenters : 

to report to the executive officer twice a clay 357 

to regard the instructions to boatswains and gunners. . 582 

at sea, to examine masts and yards and report daily. . . 583 

to attend to the lining, &c, of the lower deck ports.. 584 

to have the pumps and hose always ready for use 585 

to attend to the boats, ladders, and gratings 586 

to keep shot plugs, &c, ready for immediate use 587 

to examine and report when calking is required 588 

going into port, to prepare an account of defects 589 

not officers of the line 633 

qualifications of candidates for the appointment of 864 

boards for the examination of 874 

warrants, after six months' service under acting ap- 
pointment 903 

apartment to be occupied by, on board ship 977 

sea service of, from what date to be computed 1512 

Carpenters' Mates : 

to rank as petty officers 648 

Castles : 

not to be saluted T . 687 

colors to be hoisted when passing „ 790 

Ceremonies. (See Military Honors, Ceremonies and Salutes.) 

Certificates : 

of correction of descriptive lists or muster-rolls 166 

of repairs of merchant vessels injured by collision 244 

of death, disability and pension 573 

to be furnished by a candidate for assistant naval con- 
structor 859 

to clothes lists of men in hospitals 1215 

not to be given to traders, inventors, or others 1293 

of surgeon, when officers apply for leave of ab- 
sence, &c - 1427 

required for unavoidable losses of clothing and small 

stores ~ 1496 

Challenge. (See Duel) 

Chaplains : 

to officiate when ordered by the commanding officer. . . 575 

to visit the sick with consent of senior medical officer. 576 

to give Christian instruction to the boys and others.. . 577 
when there is no schoolmaster on board to superintend 

the education of the boys .' 578 

to make quarterly reports and at end of cruise 579 

not an officer of the line 633 

position of, in funeral processions 750 

qualifications of a candidate for appointment 870 

to receive the same pay as lieutenants 1511 



INDEX. 305 

No. of paragraph. 
CHARGE D'AFFAIRES : 

to receive the first visit from a commander-in-chief 45 

visiting a naval vessel or station, how to be received.. 662, 682 
Check Officers at a Navy Yard : 

to be commissioned officers, their duties 1285 

Cheers : 

never to be given to a naval person on board ship 716 

Chiefs of Bureaus. (See Bureaus of the Navy Department.) 

Chief Engineers. See Engineers, Chief.) 

Chief Magistrates, Foreign. (£ee Foreign Sovereigns and 

Chief Magistrates.) 
Chief of Staff : 

when a vice-admiral may be 7 

when a rear-admiral may be 8 

when a commodore may be 9 

when a captain may be 10 

when a commander may be 11 

before battle to be informed of orders, plans, and 

signals . . . .' 87 

to be selected for his known ability 130 

the qualifications and requirements of „ „ 131 

to assist commander-in-chief, and be on his vessel 132 

to preserve correspondence and keep a journal 133 

to keep a register of orders issued and signals made . . . 134 
to see that officers note their verbal orders in order 

book 135 

to report neglect or disobedience of orders 136 

to report orders given by himself to junior officers 137 

to make out all orders of the day 138 

to receive the pass- word daily and issue it 139 

to have under his orders officers of the general staff. . . 140 
to have supervision over staffs of squadron or division 

commanders 141 

to have control of the signal corps of the fleet 142 

to see to the signal books, and that vessels are prepared 

with a uniform system of signals ; 143 

to keep a register of the names of officers 144 

to be always ready to give a statement of stores, &c. 145 

to give information of the personnel of the fleet 146 

reports, &c, transmitted through him to commander- 
in-chief 147 

to keep records when commanding officers are con- 
vened 148 

to take charge in the conduct of important ceremonies 149 
to be at the side of the commander-in-chief in battle.. 150 
to have superintendence of signals made in battle, &c. 151 
to be responsible that minutes of the action are cor- 
rectly kept 152 

on the death of his commander his duties will cease . . . 153 
20 N R 



306 INDEX. 

No. of paragraph. 

Chief of Staff — Continued. 

of divisions or squadrons, hare similar duties 154 

personal staff officers under his immediate direction. . . 155 

may appoint a clerk 890 

to be nominated by commander-in-chief, not below a 

commander .' 895 

regarded as a cabin officer and entitled to mess therein 967 

accommodation of, when there are one or two cabins.. 973, 974 

Civil Engineers. (See Engineers, Civil.) 

Cities of the United States : 

not to be saluted by naval vessels ...... 687 

Clerks : 

not to be under eighteen years of age, responsibility for 871 

what officers allowed to appoint 890 

how appointed, their obligations, &c 891 

when to be allowed to paymasters 894 

messing with their commanders, how to be accom- 
modated 966 

commencement of pay and when to be appointed 1507 

pay of, while settling accounts — not to work for other 

officers 1522 

Clothes Lists : 

to be kept by officers of divisions — duty of executive 

officer 349,421 

to accompany the transfer of all persons other than 

officers » 1053 

of men in hospitals 1215 

of recruits on receiving vessels 1375 

Clothing : 

lost by wreck or capture of a vessel, reports of 296 

duties of an officer of divisions in relation to 421 

how to be issued by paymasters 553 

the purchase of, on foreign stations, by paymasters 554 

damaged, may be re-valued and again issued 556 

how to be furnished to marines 568, 1307 

proceeds of sale of slush may be used to furnish 833 

commanding officers to have inspected and cleansed.. . 942 

when necessary to destroy to prevent the spread of 

disease 943 

of crew, the duties of commanding officer 944 to 946 

of men sent to a hospital 954, 1215 

of marines, duties of their commanders 1307 to 1309, 1317 

of recruits on board receiving vessels 1354, 1365, 1375 

Coals : 

duties of commander-in-chief, in relation to 42, 61 

quantity of, to be reported daily 319, 378, 492, 495 

not to be received when wet, stowage of 320 

duties of the fleet engineer in relation to 484 

duties of the chief engineer in relation to 492, 495, 498, 500 



INDEX. 307 

No. of paragraph. 
Coal-heavers : 

to be arranged in 1 watches 330, 333 

the specific duties of, how to be shown . „ 331 

oatmeal to be issued to, gratuitously 491 

reported negligent or incapable, may be reduced 914, 917 

medical and other examinations of 1352 

enlistment of, by vessels on foreign service 1367 

extra pay to, on re-enlisting, after honorable discharge 1495 

reduced pay of, when negligent or incapable 1516 

Coast Survey : 

duty on vessels of, on sea-service, carries sea-pay. . 825, 826 

Coast of Africa : 

regulations for vessels on the 832 

Cockswains to Commanders-in-Chief : 

to rank as petty officers of the line 647 

Cockswains : 

to rank as petty officers of the line 647 

when boats are imssing each other 717 

Collisions at Sea : 

commanding officers to report the facts 243 

between a naval and a merchant vessel 244 

when lights may not be exhibited „ . 918 

rules concerning lights, fog-signals and sailing. ... 919 

when a ship is considered a steam or a sailing ship 920 

lights to be carried between sunset and sunrise 921 

lights to be carried by steam vessels when under way. 922 
lights to be carried by steamships when towing other 

ships 923 

lights for sailing ships under way or being towed 924 

portable lights on small vessels in bad weather 925 

lights for vessels at anchor in roadsteads or fairways.. 926 

lights to be carried by sailing pilot vessels 927 

lights to be carried by open fishing and other boats. .. 928 

* fog-signals, regulations in relation to 929 

when two sailing ships are meeting end on 930 

when two sailing ships are crossing 931 

when two ships under steam are meeting end on 932 

when two ships under steam are crossing 933 

when sailing ships and steamships are likely to collide 934 

when steamships shall slacken speed, sto}} or reverse.. 935 

a vessel overtaking another, to keep out of the way . . . 936 
when one ship keeps out of the way, the other to keep 

her course 937 

dangers of navigation and circumstances to be regarded 938 

every other suitable precaution required 939 

duty of commanding officers when collisions take place 940 
Colors : 

when a vessel may dip 712 

when they may be half-masted 725 to 735 



308 INDEX. 

"No. of paragraph. 

Colors— Continued. 

when to be carried in funeral processions 742 

when to be hauled down from half-mast and run up . . . 749 

when to be hoisted and kept flying 790 

Command, Succession in 

when a commander-in-chief dies, or leaves his station. 110 
when a commander of a squadron or division is sepa- 
rated from his commander-in-chief 125 

when a commander of a vessel is removed or resigns.269, 270, 271 
when a commander of a vessel dies or is absent tempo- 
rarily ; 338,641 

when an executive officer is rendered incapable 401 

when commanders-in-chief are killed or become incapa- 
ble.. 639.640 

when commanders of vessels die or become incapable. 641 

masters-at-arms have no right to 649 

when commandants of yards are temporarily absent.. 1109 

when the executive officer of a yard is absent 1146 

Commanders : 

the command and employment of 11 

classed as officers of the line 630 

in return salutes, entitled to seven guns 681 

in boats to wear a gilt star on the end of boat staff 759 

regarded as cabin officers, entitled to mess therein 967 

Commandants of Naval Stations. (See Naval Stations, 

Commandants of.) 
Commandants of Navy Yards, (See Navy Yards, Com- 
mandants of.) 
Commanders-in-Chief : 

to whom the title applies 17 

duration of prerogatives — to make known the officers of 

his staff 26 

equipment of fleet to be forwarded 27 

to make known defects or deficiencies in a vessel 28 

before sailing on foreign service - 29 

will not allow passengers to be received without au- 
thority 30 

immediate command of his ship — to be entered in log. . 31 
to have the laws and regulations and special orders 

observed 32 

may remove his flag to another vessel 33 

may designate officer to command his flag-ship 34 

to see that his vessels are practiced and the time noted. 36 

to exercise vessels in making signals 37 

when fleet is ready for sea, to place it in order 38 

to direct course to be steered by fleet at sea 39 

to direct whether batteries shall be loaded on going to 

sea 40 

to investigate when vessels get out of line or separate. 41 



INDEX. 309 

No. of paragraph. 
Commanders-in-Chief— Continued. 

to know the sailing and steaming qualities of Ms ves- 
sels - 42 

when about to anchor will signalize to his vessels, &c. 43 
to put himself in communication with diplomatic 

agents 44 

to pay the first visit to certain diplomatic agents 45 

to inform himself of usual salutes, &c 46 

to pay proper respect to civil and naval authorities ... 47 

in absence of consul 48 

in saluting, to hoist ensign, &c 49 

to conform to treaty stipulations in regard to salutes . . 50 
his flag, when absent over twenty-four hours in foreign 

port 51 

intercourse with ministers and consuls of the United 

States 52 

not to inflict punishment when we have treaties 53 

in absence of diplomatic agent will correspond, &c 54 

to do his utmost to protect the commerce of the United 

States - 55 

to draw up regulations for preservation of health and 

good order, &c 56 

when not to retain officers or men longer than the 

limit of a cruise 57 

to require economy and avoid purchasing stores in for- 
eign countries 58 

to procure supplies of stores for his vessels 59 

disposal of stores or munitions of war 60 

to require economy in consumption of fuel 61 

when a vessel is chartered 62 

when sick or disabled persons are sent home 63 

vessels not to sail until provision for comfort of invalids 

is made : 64 

requisitions to be approved by him or senior officer, &c . 65 
purchases in foreign ports where there is no agent of 

the United States 66 

may send an officer to the United States for trial, &c. . 67 

to take precautions to secure trial of offenders 68 

to inspect his vessels and assure himself of their effi- 
ciency 69 

not to delegate his authority to inspect his vessels, un- 
less 70 

to be accompanied by officers, and take minutes of in- 
spections 71 

inspections of hospitals and hospital ships, reports, &c . 72 

to cause boats to be often inspected and exercised 73 

expenditure of ammunition , 74 

to furnish orders, &c, in time of war, to each com- 
mander 75 



310 INDEX. 

No. of paragraph. 
COMMANDERS-IN-CHIEF-r-Continued. 

to assure himself that vessels are properly fitted out, 

&c... 76 

assignment of flag officers to vessels, unless 77 

divisions of fleet and assignment of officers 78 

precautions in a harbor or roadstead in time of war . . . 79 

to keep vessels under steam when liable to attack. .... 80 

to keep jjilots on board and allow no one to leave, &c. 81 

to cause the watchword to be delivered daily 82 

guard-boats, steam watch-boats, and other precautions. 83 

concert of action with the military commander, &c 84 

precautions in presence of an enemy _•_ 85 

on going into action at night to hoist signal lantern. . . 86 
information to be imparted before going into action. . . '87 
to furnish each commanding officer with plan of battle . 88 
assignment of ships — alteration by divisional com- 
manders «. 89 

disabled vessels to be looked after in prospect of defeat. 90 
to observe conduct in battle, and award deserved 

praise 91 

after an engagement to require reports of officers, &c . . 92 
to report to the Secretary of the Navy after an engage- 
ment ....'. 93 

to observe neutrality in wars between other belliger- 
ents -"_ 94 

to observe laws of blockade of other nations 95 

to protect our citizens within belligerent lines 9Q 

to require observance of the laws of neutrality 97 

to afford convoy to merchant vessels in time of war. . . 98 
when troops are embarked to draw up regulations, &c. 99 
to visit commanding officers of troops on arrival, un- 
less : 100 

to require reports of important services from officers . . 101 

to forward reports to department and retain copies 102 

general orders regulating leaVes of absence to be issued . 103 

to correspond regularly with the Secretary of the Navy . 104 

to forward monthly returns of vessels to department . . 105 

police orders of commanders of vessels to be examined. 106 

to forward suggestions to department of improvements . 107 

quarterly reiDorts of steam machinery and boilers 108 . 

not to resign without consent, except after medical 

survey 109 

temporary successor, in case of death or permanent 

leave 110 

to turn over papers to his successor in command Ill 

to transmit list of numbers of correspondence to depart- 
ment, &c 112 

not to leave until regulations for transfer are complied 

with 113 



INDEX. 311 

"No. of paragraph. 
Commanders-in-Chief — Continued. 

personal staff officers of, under direction of chief of 

staff 155 

personal staff officers of, to act as Ms aids 156 

can assign personal staff officers to duty as secretaries. 157 

incapable of exercising command, "by whom succeeded. 639 

killed in battle, by whom succeeded provisionally 640 

visiting a vessel not attached to his squadron 676 

saluting the flag of, when vessels join his squadron.. . -689 

funeral honors on the death of 726, 734 

when his flag or broad pennant may be worn 757 

when meeting his superior in command 778 

to investigate accidents and other occurrences and re- 
port ... 818 

to require their vessels to visit ports alternately 847 

lengthy anchorages or wintering in ports forbidden.. . 848 

to furnish the department a quarterly cruising report. . 849 

giving acting appointments and filling vacancies 883 to 888 

to nominate his chief of staff and personal staff officers. 895 

who may be ordered to perform duty as fleet officers . . 896 

chief of staff or secretary to mess with 966 

regarded as a cabin officer and entitled to its privi- 
leges 966 

on foreign service, when to discharge enlisted men 1057 

authorized to make surveys 1393 

not to be absent over one week in two months, unless. 1425 
their sanction required to leaves of absence of officers. 1428 
to forward copies of general orders, &c., to depart- 
ment 1466 

duty of, when leaving a foreign port 1476, 1477 

books allowed, to be kept in his apartment 1487 

Commanders of Squadrons, under a commander-in-chief, 
and Commanders of Divisions : 

to be assigned to duty by the commander-in-chief. ... . 78 

responsible to commander-in-chief for efficiency, &c. . . 114 

reports, returns, and requisitions to be forwarded, &e. 115 

in preparing for sea, may sign requisitions 116 

to inspect vessels quarterly and make reports 117 

to regulate their vessels by signals 118 

to correct mistakes of vessels in another squadron, &c. 119 

to repeat general signals of the commander-in-chief. . . 120 

when a vessel is not doing its duty in battle 121 

to change his flag if his vessel is disabled in action 122 

under no other circumstances to change without au- 
thority 1 123 

to help vessels of his commander-in-chief in jeopardy. 124 
to command vessels separated from the commander-in- 
chief. 125 

separated, to endeavor to join the commander-in-chief. 126 



312 INDEX, 

No. of paragraph. 
Commanders of Squadrons, &c. — Continued. 

separated, will call for reports, and submit them 127 

killed in battle, his flag to continue hoisted 128 

after battle to forward reports of officers 92, 129 

funeral honors, on the death of - 726, 734 

when divisional commanders are not to wear their dis- 
tinguishing marks. . . 754 

to carry distinguishing marks on the bow of their barges. 760 

regarded as cabin officers and entitled to mess therein. 967 

authorized to make surveys 1393 

Commanding Officers of Steam Vessels : 

to observe these directions in addition to those relating 

to " officers commanding vessels" 312 

to acquaint himself with the engines, &c 313 

to study the principle of the expansion of steam, &c. 314 

on proceeding to sea, to make repeated trials, &c 315 

to use only two-thirds boiler power, except, &c 316 

paddles to be removed in certain cases 317 

to exercise judgment in use of steam and sails 318 

to inform himself of the daily consumption of coal, &c. 319 

not to receive wet coal, stowage of the bunkers 320 

before leaving port to take spare gear and not to land it . 321 

to report the hours under sail and under steam 322 

before going to sea to' fill the boilers with fresh water. 323 

to direct engineer to have flues and boilers cleaned, &c . 324 
lanterns to pre vent collision must be in order, lighted, 

&-c, except 325 

precautions to take against danger from fire 326 

to examine and sign the steam log daily 327 

to transmit cojnes of the steam log to department quar- 
terly 328 

to require steam engineers to conform to the orders of 

the officer of the deck 329 

engineers, firemen, and coal-heavers to be arranged in 

watches 330 

senior engineer to submit watch, fire, quarter, and clean- 
ing bills..... ...... ...... 331 

senior engineer to examine engines, &c, daily, and 

report. 332 

to make regulations for the leaves of absence of engi- 
neers, &c 1 333 

steam may be raised for dispelling bad air, &c 334 

to get up steam once a month, &c 335 

directions for starting and stopping the engines 418 

to use their vessels for towiug ouly in specified cases.. 831 

to cleanse, ventilate, aud whitewash 941 

Commanding Officers of Vessels : 

to be furnished with the watchword for the day and 

night 82 



INDEX. 313 

No. of paragraph. 
Commanding Officers of Vessels — Continued. 

going into action, to be furnished with a plan of the 

battle 88 

position of, in battle, assigned by commander-in-chief. 89 

to forward reports after a battle 92, 1465 

to report important services performed by their ships. 101 

reports to be made through chief of staff and direct. . . 147 

when joining their commands 158 

when vessel is in charge of the commanding officer of 

the yard 159 

not to exercise authority or control over repairs or equip- 
ments, nor over officers and mechanics of the yard.. 160 
to be furnished with a statement of condition of vessel, 

drawings, &c 161 

when a vessel is transferred to him for service 162 

to be held responsible for conduct and government 163 

to issue general orders through the executive officer. .. 164 

may request a survey of his crew if thought to be inferior 165 

when his ship is put in commission 166 

to see that a note is made upon accounts, lists, &c 167 

not to exceed the number allowed in any rating, excej>t . 168 

the general police of their vessels 169 

before sailing from a port in the United States 170 

before proceeding to sea, to exercise the men, &c 171 

quarter, watch, fire, and other station bills to be made 

out 172 

the preparation of the vessel for battle 173 

to require masters, ensigns, and midshipmen to procure 

a good sextant or octant, and books 174 

to superintend all important evolutions personally, &c. - 175 

to have morning and evening inspections at quarters- 176 

the exercise of the crew 177 

to designate rockets and powder for signal service 178 

to require executive officer to have examinations, &c. 179 
petty officers to be present when provisions are served 

out 180 

the inspection of the vessel - 181 

to require surgeon to send sick list every morning 182 

to make reports containing compass corrections 183 

before sailing to have the spare articles examined, &c. 184 

boats and boat howitzers 185 

will not permit modification of the uniform 186 

before sailing will require reports 187 

before sailing to make a report to the department 188 

to impress upon the men the importance of allotments. 189 
not to permit the executive officer and the line officer 

next in rank to be absent at the same time 190 

to require a sufficient number of officers on board 191 

to keep one medical officer on board 192 



314 



INDEX. 



No. of paragraph. 
Commanding Officers of Vessels — Continued. 

watches and meal hours . 193 

when in port several days, officers to keep day's duty.. 194 

how the officer of the deck will be designated . . . 195 

to divide the crew into three watches , 196 

to pay attention to health and cleanliness - . 197 

to direct the officers to look after the health of the men. 198 

to promote amusements 1 . 199 

receiving passengers . „ 200 

to procure circulars and general orders 201 

to require the surgeon to procure a clean hill of health, 

&c 202 

when to send back persons found on board after getting 

to sea, 2Q3 

to muster before dismissing the pilot 204 

lookouts to be stationed 205 

making signals 206 

not to perform any independent movement, except.... 207 

to report appearance of a strange sail or danger 208 

when approaching a suspicious man-of-war 209 

when in doubt of the continuance of peace 210 

not to suffer vessel to be searched by a foreign power.. 211 

to be responsible for safe conducting and steering 212 

to take a pilot, when navigation is doubtful, &c 213 

entering a port where there is a senior officer or in meet- 
ing United States vessels at sea 214 

when meeting other commanding officers 215 

when arriving in port, to submit requisitions . 216 

Avhen arriving in port, to be refitted . 217 

when entering port where there is a senior officer 218 

entered port under steam, not to put out fires, &c 219 

to visit commander of a station, upon arrival 220 

to observe the laws and regulations of a foreign port . . . 221 

cruising in the torrid zone, may employ natives 222 

on entering port, will regulate the hours of boats 223 

in regard to leaves of absence from ship 224, 225 

to have the boys of the ship instructed 226 

ordinary seamen, landsmen, and boys to be instructed . . 227 

to have a liberty-book kept, &c 228 

to have a conduct-book kept by the executive officer.. 229 
to require line officers to make observations, and re- 
port 230 

to keep a register of punishments, and transmit to de- 
partment 231 

the infliction of punishment 232 

to report punishments inflicted on officers 233 

to have chain cables, hawsers, spare sails and stores ex- 
amined 234 

to have pumps worked once a week, &c 235 



INDEX. 315 

No. of paragraph. 
Commanding Officers of Vessels — Continued. 

not to keep bad. provisions, or put crew on short allow- 
ance : 236 

to issue extra rations to passengers', &c 237 

when officers or passengers die on board 238 

to order a sale, if their effects are deteriorating 239 

to take precautions to secure pension rights 240 

to make reports of passengers carried 241 

to report accidents and injuries - 242 

to report collisions resulting seriously . . . 243, 940 

in cases of collision 244 

to keep his boats slung up at the davits -. 245 

not to allow any passenger to interfere 246, 641 

to be governed by regulations of commander-in-chief. . 247 

when a vessel is separated from the fleet 248 

when necessary to go into a port not designated 249 

on foreign stations, may receive distressed sailors, &c. 250 

receiving merchant seamen as prisoners .... 251 

to exercise the powers of consuls in certain cases 252 

to be held accountable for violating instructions at the 

request of a consul — 253 

in cases of death, desertion, or capture 254 

to promptly communicate orders to those under him. . . 255 

to make reports of an action, chase, or movement, &c. . 256 

to keep a journal of the cruise 257 

going into a foreign port, to direct officers to obtain in- 
formation 258 

to report capacity and power of foreign vessels ^. . . 259 

to present journal to commander-in-chief, &c 260 

to afford assistance to foreign vessels 261 

to report a refusal of assistance by foreign authorities. 262 

to keep a remark-book, and note information, &c 263 

to keep midshipmen employed at their studies 264 

to require midshipmen to keep journals, &c 265 

when a midshipman leaves, to give letter 266 

to see that the paymaster credits prize money 267 

to have a semi-annual inspection, and forward report. . 268 
when removed from one vessel to another, permitted to 

take his clerk, coxswain, steward, cook,- &c 269 

upon removal or resignation 270, 271 

to make suggestions for the improvement of the ves- 
sel, &c 272 

to facilitate examination by custom-house officer 273 

when to send persons back to the United States ... 274 

to designate the commander of a boat expedition, &c. . 275 
not to permit the jnlot to leave the vessel in time of 

war, &c 276 

to carefully maintain the order of battle 277 

when in a dark night or fog 278 



316 INDEX. 

No. of paragraph 
Commanding Officers of Vessels — Continued. 

not to engage the enemy without signal 279 

not to leave a light without permission, to assist, &c . . 280 

when disabled, and goin£; out of a fight 281 

those having no part in order of battle, to aid, &c 282 

to keep hawsers in readiness to tow vessels out of fight . 283 

when an enemy's vessel is crippled, &c . 284 

when enemy's vessels haul down their colors 285 

when a vessel of the enemy strikes her flag 286 

if she again hoists her flag, may be destroyed 287 

when taking possession of a captured vessel 288 

to see that prisoners are humanely treated 289 

to see that prisoners are supplied with rations 290 

to take care that prisoners are securely guarded 291 

when an action is over „ 292 

if compelled to surrender, to destroy signals, &c 293 

to be the last person to leave vessel in case of danger. . 294 

in case of shipwreck or disaster 295 

to report loss of clothing and bedding, in cases of loss or 

capture 296 

when the accounts of a vessel are lost 297 

when the descriptive-lists are lost 298 

when shipwrecked within the United States 299, 300 

to discharge powder before going to a navy yard 301 

when under order of a commandant of navy yard, not 

to give leave of absence without his authority 302 

on arriving in the United States to see that requisi- 
tions are made 303 

to be present when men are paid off 304 

to sign honorable discharges, &c. 305 

before delivering vessel to commander of station 306, 307 

must bear expense of unjustifiable changes in vessel- . . 308 

not to leave vessel until returns are made, &c 309 

to sign midshipmen's journals, and give each a letter. . 310, 812 

authority to cease, when; to direct the duties of mates. 483 

responsible that yeoman is not discharged, &c 311 

when not to grant leave of absence to an officer — the 

charge of the deck, &c 612 

to have cables bent in due time on approaching land. . 613 
precautions to be observed on entering port, approach- 
ing shoals or rocks, and upon anchoring, &c 614 

care of chain cables, swivels, shackles, and bolts 615 

the capstans to be turned, oiled, &c 616 

care of lightning conductors and boarding netting 617 

taking and recording meteorological observations 618 

precautions to be observed against accidents from fire. 619 
explosive oils and inflammable liquids not allowed on 

board, except 620 

to designate suitable places for smoking 621 



INDEX. 317 

No. of paragraph. 
Commanding Officers of Vessels — Continued. 

the lighting of pipes or cigars 622 

when moving powder and on opening the magazine.. . 623 

magazine not to be opened without the consent of 624 

to be careful that the vessel is well calked 625 

to keep a night-order book 626 

sailing in squadron to give notice of apparent danger. . 627 

commanding iron vessels — care for their x>reservation . . 628 

hydrographic information to be noted and forwarded. . 629 

in foreign ports, celebrating national anniversaries 695 

when to wear a narrow pennant at the main, &c 755 

to see that steam heaters are not removed 830 

to furnish monthly reports of punishments, form of 850 

to indorse date on orders of officers reporting for duty. 852 

when their vessels are commissioned 853 

to make suggestions in relation to the book of allow- 
ances 856 

on vessels of war, may appoint a clerk 890 

promoted on foreign service, not removed from com- 
mand 898 

duties of, in cases of collision 940 

to keep their ships dry, clean, and well ventilated 941 

to have bedding and clothing inspected, &c, monthly. 942 

to survey clothing, &c, necessary to be destroyed 943 

not to allow the men to sleep in exposed situations .... 944 

to cause their crews to bathe often, &c 945 

to pay attention to the suitable clothing of the men. . . 946 
to have boats' crews breakfast before leaving their 

ships 947 

not to allow the absence of boats after sunset, except- 948 
to prevent unnecessary exposure of officers and men.. 949 
to prevent the use of unhealthy fruits and other arti- 
cles 950 

to have drinking water tested by the medical officer. . 951 
daily allowance of water, to be not less than one gallon, 

unless 952 

when in port, to allow fresh meat and vegetables, &c. 953 

a medical officer to accompany men sent to hospital, &c. 954 
when the sick or wounded are sent to another vessel 

to be transferred to a naval hospital 955 

when men are to be transferred to a receiving ship from 

a hospital 956 

in relation to life-buoys and the quarter-boats 957 

not to have men do unnecessary work outside the ship, 

or in strong tide- ways, &c 958 

to keep accounts of expenditures and report 959 

to examine and approve returns, requisitions, and ac- 
counts 960 

to approve requisitions for articles necessary only, &c. 961 



318 INDEX. 

No. of paragraph. 

Commanding Officers of Vessels— Continued. 

to nse the ntmost economy in expenditure of stores, &c. 962 

when a vessel is placed in ordinary 963 

when a cable is slipped or parted _ 964 

when a ship is paid off or placed in ordinary 965 

affording convoy to merchant vessels 988 to 1003 

duties of, in relation to captured vessels and prizes .1004 to 1023 

duties of, in relation to quarantine 1046 to 1050 

when authorized to discharge enlisted persons 1055 

when authorized to discharge petty officers " 1059 

to give their successors a list of men entitled to honor- 
able discharge, &c 1062 

to furnish petty officers, &c, an honorable dis- 
charge , & c 1063 

whom they should not recommend for honorable dis- 
charge o . . . „ 1074 

to decide cases of desertion and straggling 1082 

the case of deserters in a port of the United States.. .1087, 1088 

to recommend for promotion and medals of honor 1093 

to send the names of those entitled to medals of honor. 1094 
to point out defects when a vessel is to be repaired. . . , 1125 
when their vessel is being repaired at a yard, how em- 
ployed .... 1126 

when to give orders to marine officers of superior rank. 1316 

when to have more than one marine officer on board.. 1321 

authorized to make surveys 1393 

to report cases of death, wounds, injury, or disability. 1415 
to require reports of death or disability from medical 

officers ------ - * - 1417 

when they may grant one week^s leave of absence .... 1424 

not to permit officers or men to leave, except 1426 

may grant temporary leaves of absence to their officers. 1428 
may grant temporary leaves of absence to petty officers 

and men 1429 

to receive and forward correspondence of naval persons . 1447 

when leaving a port where they have received supplies . 1477 

to forward internal rules of vessel to the department.. 1466 

Commanding Officers of Naval Stations. (See Naval 
Stations, Commandants of.) 

Commanding Officers of Navy Yards. (See Navy Yards, 
Commandants of.) 

Commissioners : 

visiting a naval vessel or station, how received 662, 682 

Commodores : 

appropriate command of 9 

classed as officers of the line 630 

embarked as a passenger, authority of 641 

how received, when assuming command and on visits 

of inspection 670, 671 



INDEX* 319 

No. of paragraph. 

Commodores— Continued. 

ceremonies when relinquishing command 672 

leaving ship temporarily or absent' at night 673 

broad pennant, not to be hoisted, on visits, without 

orders 674 

when first visiting a ship not belonging to his com- 
mand - 676 

employed on shore, visiting a vessel 677 

when ordered to command a yard or station 680 

salutes and return salutes 681 

when broad pennant is attached to boats 717 

broad pennant to be carried at the main 753 

in command of a shore station, to wear broad pennant. 758 

regarded as cabin officers, and entitled to mess therein. 967 

Complaints : 

against superiors, the proper mode of presenting 772 

to be confined to the facts 773 

combinations for the purpose of making 809 

Conduct-Book. (See Books.) 

Confidential Orders : 

officers charged with and meeting their superiors 778 

Confinement : 

reports of, to be furnished by the master-at-arms 600 

of officers to be reported monthly 850 

of officers and crew of a seized neutral vessel 1017 

Congress, Committees of : 

visiting a naval vessel or station, how received. 658, 682 

Construction of Vessels : 

alterations in, not allowed, except 782 

when in charge of naval constructors 1227 

Consuls : 

their official relations with or to naval officers . ... 44 46, 253 

when naval officers are authorized to exercise the 

powers of 252 

visiting a naval vessel or station, how received 664, 682 

when a death of a naval person occurs in a foreign port. 737, 738 

when an enlisted man is discharged for specified reasons . 1057 

Consuls-general : 

visiting a naval vessel or station, how received ........ 658, 682 

Continuous Service Certificates : 

when and to whom they may be given 1070 

when they entitle to one dollar per month extra pay . . 1071 

forfeiture, by failure to re-enlist within three months. . 1072 

embrace the advantages of honorable discharges 1073 

when they entitle to good-conduct badges and to be a 

petty officer 1076 

to be accompanied with a box, duplicates not given. . . 1077 

seamen gunners to have all the benefits of 1565 



320 INDEX. 

No. of paragraph. 

Contractors : 

fraud and improper conduct of, to be reported 773 

failure of, to deliver — duty of purchasing agent 1288 

required to mark articles furnished with their names . . 148! 

Convoys : 

duties of commander-in-chief in relation to .......... . 98 

regulating the movements of, &c 988 

list of names of, to be sent to the department 989 

to have no contraband articles on board 990 

to be defended ; not to separate 991 

precautions against separation ; place of rendezvous . . . 992 

to be notified of a place of rendezvous 993 

to be careful at night about strange sails 994 

officers. to make report of disobedience, misbehavior, &c . 995 
in case of willful disobedience, &c, protection may be 

refused 996 

the case of convoys in company or meeting 997 

case of two convoys ; senior officer commands ; distinct- 
ive flags 998 

commanding officer shall not receive a fee, &c 999 

belligerent or neutral vessels not to be convoyed, unless . 1000 
duty of a commanding officer about to sail from a for- 
eign port during war, or in probability of war 1001 

no lights to be carried at night except by direction 1002 

should not be searched or detained by cruisers 1003 

Cooks : 

to rank as petty officers 648, 1074 

Coopers : 

to rank as petty officers 648 

Corporals : 

duty of, in connection with bumboats 389 

to rank as petty officers : . 648 

Correspondence : 

of a commander-in-chief with the Secretary of the 

Navy ....104,111,112 

anonymous, will not be noticed 773 

officers and others of the service to observe the rules.. 1433 

to be clear and concise ; on one side of each half sheet, &c . 1434 

when half or whole sheets may be used ; inclosures 1435 

in closures to be numbered and referred to 1436 

size and kind of paper to be used 1437 

separate letters to be written on separate subjects 1438 

how to be folded and indorsed 1439 

signatures to be legible, the rank or rate annexed 1440 

when to be numbered by officers 1441 

at sea, the latitude and longitude to be stated 1442 

on board ship, the rate of the vessel to be stated 1443 

dates of papers referred to, to be distinctly noted 1444 

papers in foreign languages, accompanied by transla- 
tions 1445 



INDEX. 321 

jSTo. of paragraph. 
Correspondence — Continued. 

from abroad, duplicates or triplicates of important 

letters . . 1446 

when to be sent unsealed to the commanding officer. . . 1447 

letters from inferiors to be forwarded with indorsement . 1448 

of officers temporarily in place of a commander-in-chief. 1449 

general routine to be observed in forwarding 1450, 1451 

when vessels are separated from the commander-in- 
chief 1452 

when vessels are acting singly and being alone 1453 

when the same communication is made to the depart- 
ment and a bureau 1454 

when officers are separated from the commander-in- 
chief 1455 

communications to be acknowledged, except 1456 

orders, circulars, and instructions issued by a bureau. . 1458 

when letters should be addressed to the chief of a bureau . 1459 

official, not to be published, or copies furnished, except- 1460 

private, restrictions as to information to be given in 1461 

the preservation, copying, recording, and hling of 1462 

«at navy yards and stations, to be kept in letter-books. . 1463 
after battle, reports of officers to be forwarded to de- 
partment - 1465 

general orders, internal rules of vessel, and other cor- 
respondence, to be forwarded 1466 

in relation to the official conduct of inferiors 1467 

application for a revocation or modification of orders. . 1468 
Courts-Martial : 

duties of a commander-in-chief 67, 68 

officers of, not to prejudge cases 817 

army, to punish offenses of soldiers on a naval vessel.. 986 

army, not to be held on naval vessels 987 

discharges, by sentence of 1055, 1057, 1059 

Crews : 

not to be retained longer than the limit of a cruise 57 

exercise of 171, 177 

to be mustered when a ship is put in commission 166 

to be mustered before dismissing the pilot 204 

absence of 224 

liberty to 225 

duties enjoined upon 611 

issuing money, clothing, and small stores, to 553 

in case of death, desertion, or capture of any of 607 

bedding and clothing to be inspected, aired, and 

cleansed 942 

not to sleep in exposed situations or in wet clothing. . . 944 

to bathe or wash frequently. 945 

to have their breakfasts before leaving in boats 947 

discharge of 1063 

liberty to, in domestic and in foreign ports 1429 

21NE 



322 m INDEX. 

. I>. 

No. of paragraph* 

Debts : 

when they should not be incurred by officers 796 

Decease : 

of a commander-in-chief ~ 110, 128 

of any naval persou, duties of the commanding officer- 254 

preparations for burial, superintendence of 393 

, to be entered on the log-book 445 

duties of paymasters in cases of _ 564, 1530. 1531 

duties of masters-at-arms in cases of 607 

of an officer having charge of public money or stores. 1406 

of a member of a continued board of survey 1414 

special reports of, to be made by commanding officers . , 1415 
when funeral expenses may be paid 1503 

Descriptive Lists : 

when a vessel is commissioned, to be verified, &c 166, 167 

when lost, duties of the commanding officer 298 

to be kept by the executive officer 350, 1371 

attached to certificates, by whom to be signed 573 

of articles destroyed to prevent the spread of disease. . 943, 1404 

to be entered on the back of discharge papers 1058 

to be distributed with rewards for deserters 1078 

of enlisted persons 1348, 1355-1357 

of disabled persons enlisted for particular duties 1353 

printed forms of, to be furnished to vessels 1367 

of recruits on receiving vessels 1368, 1370, 1371, 1372 

to be entered on reports of death or disability 1416 

Deserters : 

duties of the commanding officer in cases of 254 

to be entered on the log-book 445 

duties of the paymaster in cases of 564 

duties of the master-at-arms in cases of 607 

giviug an unauthorized parole to be considered as 1027, 1029 

every endeavor must be made to check 1078 

rewards may be offered for and charged to account 1079 

expenses of subsistence and traveling, to be paid, &c- 1080 

reward not to be offered for an officer, unless 1081 

what constitutes desertion and straggling, &c 1082 

forfeit wages, if in debt their effects may be taken 1083 

forfeit prize money and balances of pay, unless 1084 

mark against, how it may be removed, &c 1085. 1086 

if in a home port, duties of commanding officer 1087 

how money forfeited by, shall be disposed of 1430 

duties of officers in cases of 1088 

in a foreign port, duties of senior officer 1089 

charged with crime, in foreign waters, &c 1090 

in foreign ports, force not to be used 1091 

cases of persons accidentally separated and not return- 
ing " 1092 



INDEX. 323 

No. of paragraph. 
Deserters — Continued. 

from the Marine Corps, when apprehended 1340 

leaves of absence not to be granted, if desertion is 

probable ' 1430 

Detached Duty : 

title of an officer on, commanding a part of a fleet 18 

duties of officers on, to communicate with other officers . 779 

when boats are to be regarded as on 780 

Diplomatic Functionaries : 

communication of, with a commander-in-chief 45, 46 

in the absence of, courtesies to be observed 48 

their official relations with a commander-in-chief. 52 

in the absence of, offenses committed 53, 54 

. visiting a naval vessel or station 661, 682 

saluting of, in foreign ports 696, 705 

visit of commander-in-chief to, in foreign ports 706 

Discharges : 

applications for, to be sent through commanding officers . 147 

of enlisted persons within the United States 1055 

minors or aliens must apply to the courts for 1056 

of enlisted persons while absent from the United States . 1057 

to contain full descriptive-lists 1058 

of petty officers apr>ointed by commanding officers 1059 

of yeoman, his accounts to be first settled 1060, 1061 

to be shown on re-enlistment, if lost, how supplied 1347 

Discharges, Honorable : 

commanding officers to deliver to their successors a list 

of men entitled to 270, 1062 

to be signed when men are paid off 305 

to accompany transferred men 1062 

when to be furnished to petty officers, &c 1063 

blanks to be furnished by bureau and carefully filled up . 1064 

entitles to three months' pay on re-enlistment, &c 1065 

if lost, reference may be made to the department files. 1066 

when the three months 7 extra pay shall be paid. . . 1067 

not given to persons discharged at their own request- 1068 

of invalids sent home from foreign stations 1069 

who should not be recommended for " 1075 

those holding, offering to re-enlist and found disqual- 
ified 1359 

those holding, when re-enlisting, dates and payments 

to be noted 1360 

when entitling to traveling expenses and extra pay ..1490, 1495 
Discipline : 

reports of, to be transmitted by officers. 147 

orders for the general police of a vessel 169 

executive officer charged with the administration 

of.. ,.337,351,352 

chief engineer to report to executive officer cases of. . . 493 



324 INDEX. 

No. of paragraph. 
Discipline — Continued. 

duty of the master-at-arms to maintain, when and 

where 599 

petty officers to aid their superiors in maintaining 609 

Diseases : 

when necessary to destroy clothing to prevent the 

spread of 943 

vessels having on board infectious, to observe quaran- 
tine regulations . 1046-1050 

of officers or men rendering them unfit for duty.. 1410, 1418 

resulting in death of officers or men at hospitals 1420 

Disrating : 

when to be done by commanding officers . . 913 

of a person who enlisted in a particular rate < 914 

by reason of discharge or transfer, not allowed 915 

of a machinist, fireman, or coal heaver . 917 

Distinguished Persons : 

how received on vessels 751 

Distinguishing Flags of Officers. (See Flags, Distin- 
guishing.) 
Division Officers : 

to keep clothes lists and instruct the men in their duties . 349 

who are to be considered as . 402 

of ordnance, their duties and resrjonsibilities 421 

Dueling : 

no person to upbraid another for refusing a challenge, 

&c . . . . r . . . 807 

Economy : 

in the expenditure and consumption of stores. 58, 783, 962 

in the consumption of fuel 314, 847 

in the use of the engines and their appendages 319 

Engineers : 

to repair and clean engines and boilers when practica- 
ble 324 

to .conform to the orders of the officer of the deck 329 

to be arranged in watches 330 

senior, to submit watch, fire, quarter and cleaning bills. 331 

senior, to examine the machinery daily and report 332 

senior, to examine the quality of articles received, &c . 332 

when leave to go on shore may be given to .» 333 

boards for the examination of, how composed 874 

duty pay of, the same on shore and at sea 1509 

Engineers, Assistant : 

to become familiar with the machinery of the vessel.. 489 

when to perforin the duty of chief engineers 509; 

to execute promptly all orders, to be careful, &c 510, 511 

to make hourly reports to the officer of the deck, &c . . 512 



INDEX. 325 

No. of paragraph. 

Engineers, Assistant — Continued. 

when it is necessary to stop the engines suddenly 513 

matters which they are to note on the" steam-log 514 

to he careful to prevent waste of coals, oil, tallow, &c. 515 

in absence of senior the next in rank to he responsible - 516 

not officers of the line 633 

qualifications for admission to the grade of 906 

Engineers, First Assistant : 

qualification of candidates for promotion to 904 

qualifications for admission to the grade, age, &c 906 

Engineers, Second Assistant : 

to rank next after masters 635 

qualifications of a candidate for appointment 866 

qualifications for admission to the grade, age, &c 906 

Engineers, Chief, on board Ship : 

when detailed as fleet engineer 484 

duties of, in relation to the machinery, boilers, &c 488 

to require assistants to understand the machinery, &c. 489 

stores and storage 490 

to provide oat-meal for firemen and coal-heavers ...... 491 

responsible for expenditure of coals, stores, &c 492 

■ to make out and submit watch and other bills 493 

duty of, in relation to the fires, and turning engines. . . 494 

to report accidents to the executive officer 495 

to report daily to the executive officer 495 

to make daily examinations, and report 496 

at setting the watch in the evening will report, &c 497 

to exercise vigilant supervision over every part, &c. .. 498 

to encourage their assistants to improve themselves... 499 

to see if the coal in the bunkers agrees with the log. . . 500 

when to clean and repair engines 501 

to have firemen instructed 502 

temperature of the bunkers to be examined twice a 

watch 503 

to be responsible for the distilling apparatus 504 

a steam-log to be always kept when steam is used, &c . 505 

to take every precaution against danger from fires 506 

to note draught of water and immersion of bucket 

boards 507 

to make a quarterly report to accompany the quarterly 

synopsis of the steam-log, subjects to be reported, &c . 508 

not officers of the line 633 

designation of rank 635 

qualification of candidates for promotion to 905 

qualification for admission to the grade of 906 

Engineers, Chief, as Inspectors of Machinery afloat : 

the duties of 1200 

his responsibility ; duties when a steamer is laid up or 

repaired 1201 



326 INDEX. 

No. of paragraph. 
Engineers, Chief, &c. — Continued. 

to make monthly reports to the commandant 1202 

to conform to all orders of the commandant. 1203 

Engineers, Chief, of Navy Yards : 

to furnish lists of their employes 1136 

to have charge of the construction and repair of ma- 
chinery 1184 

to supervise the employes in the machine-shops, the 

material, &c .. . 1185 

to examine, weigh, or measure articles received, &c. .. 1186 
to see to requisitions for materials and their expendi- 
ture 1187 

to make and sign semi-monthly reports 1188 

the foremen to report to, twice a month 1J.89 

to keep accounts and report semi-monthly 1190 

to prepare pay-rolls, certify, and forward to bureau 1191 

to take receipts, inventory articles furnished, &c 1192 

to furnish a statement of stores landed and disposed of. 1193 

to attend sales and surveys 1194 

to dispose of condemned stores _ 1195 

to make timely requisitions, held responsible for defi- 
ciencies 1197 

to make a yearly report of engines and boilers 1198 

to have work done as required by the inspector of ma- 
chinery afloat 1199 

Engineers, Civil : 

to furnish lists of their employes 1136 

the general and special duties of . . 1240 

to conform to instructions, prepare plans, estimates, &c . 1241 

to submit annual reports to the commandant 1242 

to report to executive officer the number of men re- 
quired, &c . 1243 

to inspect and measure materials under their charge.. 1244 
to examine and certify bills, examine the pay-roll, sign 

monthly and semi-monthly reports, &c 1245 

to countersign requisitions for materials, &c 1246 

to require bi-monthly reports from the foremen 1247 

to be responsible for waste and improper use of mate- 
rials 1248 

to keep accounts of labor and materials expended, re- 
port, &c 1249 

to be careful that appropriations are not exceeded ; to 

be responsible for the execution of work 1250 

Engineer, Fleet : 

to be attached to the flag-ship ; detail of his duties 484 

not to make an inspection or examination without a 

written order 485 

the order to be presented to the commander of the 

vessel 486 • 



index. 327 

Xo. of paragraph. 
Engineer, Fleet — Continued. 

detail of officers to be made by chief of staff 487 

designation of rank 635 

how vacancies. may be filled on foreign stations. 896 

Enlisted Persons : 

leaves of absence to .224, 375, 302, 374, 1424, 1426, 1430 

officers prohibited from borrowing money of 795 

not to be transferred as petty officers, except machinists. 912 
when thev may be discharged bv their commanding 

officer .. ' 1055 

claiming to be aliens or minors, how discharged 1056 

not to be discharged while absent from the United 

States, except 1057 

may receive continuous-service certificates in lieu of 

honorable discharges 1070 to 1073 

when entitled to pension after ten or twenty years' ser- 
vice 1075 

when they may receive good-conduct badges 1076 

as marines, the army regulations will be applied to. .. 1323 
of boys, minors, landsmen, ordinary seamen, and sea- 
men 1344 

examination of, prior to being received : 1345, 1352 

various provisions in relation to 1346 to 1360 

received into a hospital, and after treatment, being par- 
tially disabled B - 1418 

granted leaves of absence onlv bv their commanding 

officer 1429 

not to be granted, liberty when indebted, unless 1430 

discharged, when traveling expenses are allowed 1490 

when entitled to extra pay on re-enlistment 1495 

at a hospital, to receive no pay after term of enlistment 1517 
Ensigns : 

duties of 15 

to procure a good sextant or octant, and books 174 

going on board a flag-ship, to take an order book 420 

classed as officers of the line 630 

service required of, prior to nomination for promotion. 899, 901 

serving on naval steamers to be taught steam enginery. 902 

when to be present at the muster of employes of a yard . 1148 
Equipment Officers of Navy Yards : 

to take charge of articles under cognizance of bureau. 1173 

to scrutinize requisitions, take receipts, &c 1174 

to examine, weigh, or measure articles received, &e. .. 1175 

to supervise work, have general superintendence, &c - 1176 

to prepare pay-rolls, certify, and forward to bureau. .. 1177 

to take receipts, inventory articles furnished, &c 1178 

to attend sales and surveys 1179 

to dispose of condemned stores 1180 

to furnish statement of stores landed from a vessel 1181 



328 INDEX. 

]STo. of paragraph. 
Equipment Officers of Navy Yards— Continued. 

to supply vessels with articles, taking receipts, &c 1182 

to make timely requisitions, held responsible for defi- 
ciencies 1183 

Equipment Officers of Vessels : 

duties to be performed by executive officer, unless, &c 422 

to be provided with blanks, books, and a writer 423 

to be furnished with invoices, &c 424 

receiving stores and receipting for them 425, 426 

discrepancies to be reported and adjusted 427 

all articles received to be entered on books 428 

to issue for nse the outfits of the vessel, &c 429 

to see that articles are cared for, issue only on requisi- 
tion, &c , ,430 

in relation to articles delivered to be manufactured. .. 431 

in relation to articles condemned by survey 432 

accountability for stores and expenditures 433 

transferring stores to his successor 434, 43& 

at final transfer articles will be surveyed and books 

audited. . . i 436 

his accountability for articles damaged or lost by neg- 
lect, &c ....../...._. 437 

Equipment of Vessels : 

deviation from the directions of the department forbid- 
den, except , , 782 

duties of commandants of yards 959, 1130 to 1133 

duties of the commander. 159, 160, 162, 959 to 962 

duties of the equipment officer of yards 1182 

duties of naval constructors 1229 

Examinations : 

when the executive officer doubts a man's physical 

ability : 346 

prior to appointment to a commissioned or warranted 

office 860 

of candidates for appointment or promotion 872 

composition of boards for examination of officers 874 

what candidates shall have the preference 875 

if not appointed within a year to be re-examined 876 

failing to be present, to forfeit right to be examined, &c . 877 

if assistant surgeons or paymasters fail when examined . 8f 8 
of officers absent on duty or excused at the time others 

of their date were examined 879 

no allowance for expenses of persons examined, except- 8S0 
persons producing false certificates or making false 

statements at 881 

of masters-at-arms, yeomen, and other petty officers. . . ,892 

of recruits at a rendezvous 1344, 1345, 1352 

of recruits on board receiving vessels 1369 

of candidates for enlistment as seamen gunners 1556, 1559 



INDEX. 329 

No. of paragraph. 
Executive Officers : 

when a commander may be employed as 11 

when a lieutenant commander may be employed as ... 12 

when a lieutenant may be employed as. . . 13 

to report events of a battle 92 

to receive and issue orders of the commander . 164 

to be present at the general muster of the crew 166 

to examine the cooking and mess utensils daily 179 

to report the readiness of the vessel for inspection 181 

when not to leave the vessel 190 

to keep the conduct-book of the ship 229 

next in rank, command, <fcc, to commanding officer 336 

is charged with general detail and police. 337 

to represent the commanding officer, &c 338 

to acquaint himself with arrangements of the ship and 

report defects 339 

to require officers in charge of stores and yeomen to be 

present when stores are coming on board 340 

to commence the log-book, &c .:..... 341 

to receive orders and transmit them 342 

to be responsible for execution of orders, &c 343 

to have watch, quarter, fire, and station bills made out, 

&c J 344 

to inform himself of the capacity of each man, &c 345 

to have doubtful cases examined by surgeon 346 

to see that petty officers and others are supplied with 

tickets of their stations 347 

to see that every man is supplied with a place to sleep. 348 
to require the officers to keep correct copies of the watch 

and other bills, correct clothes-lists of the men, &c. - 349 
to keep a muster-roll and descriptive-list, and have 
charge of liberty and conduct books, superintend 

messing, &c 350 

to exercise authority over all officers, see that they per- 
form their duties, conform to orders, &c 351 

to correct abuses and report violations of the regula- 
tions 352 

to report defects and deficiencies 353 

not to alter regulations of the commander, &c 354 

not to absent himself without permission 355 

to examine vessel daily and report its condition 356 

to require reports of the state of the vessel 357 

to report condition of vessel and receive orders 358 

authorized to relieve officers temporarily from duty, &c . 359 

to preside at the mess table, &c 360 

to permit no discussion of the conduct of officers or 

crew 361 

to keep punishment-book, and be responsible for its 

accuracy 362 



330 INDEX. 

Xo. of paragraph. 

Executive Officers — CoDtimied. 

to designate place of storage of spare articles, &c. . . . . 363 
to see that precautions in opening the magazine are 

observed . 364 

precautions when powder is embarked or disembarked. 365, 366 

to know the amount of munitions of war on board 367 

the keys of the. vessel u 368 

to take charge of the deck when all hands are called, &c . 369 
to see that every officer fit for duty is at his station. . . 370 
when the commander is not on deck, may advise and 
direct the officer of the deck, and take charge if neces- 
sary... 371 

in port will satisfy himself that sentinels are properly 
placed, and give the officer of the marine guard his 

orders 372 

to draw up a routine for each day of the week, &c 373 

permits to go on shore may be granted by 374 

is responsible for the mooring of the vessel, &c 375 

to go through vessel before 8 o'clock, &c 376 

how to act in case of fire 377 

to report daily the amount of water, provisions, and 

coal 378 

stores in charge of yeoman controlled by 379 

duty of in relation to the ship's boats 380, 381, 382 

to exercise supervision over instruction of midshipmen . 383 

to give letters to midshipmen when they leave 384-812 

not to be required to keep a watch unless necessary — 385 

to pay attention to the staying of masts and spars 386 

to order chafing gear put on vessel going to sea 387 

duty of before entering port 388 

duty of on going into a foreign port 389 

to allow no unwholesome fruit to come alongside 390 

not to permit merchants to come on board, &c 391 

to examine binnacle-list every morning 392 

to superintend preparations for burial 393 

when the vessel is cleared for action 394 

in time of action 395 

to lead the first boarding party 396 

to see that injuries to hull and spars during an action 

are immediately repaired 397 

at the end of an action 398 

when the vessel is laid up 399 

while the vessel is being dismantled 400 

if disabled, his duties devolve on the line officer next 

below him 401 

reports to be made to by the chief engineer 488, 493, 495, 500 

to examine the yeoman's accounts weekly 595 

to succeed his commander in case of death or disability. 641 

station of, when distinguished persons are received 751 



INDEX. 331 

No. of paragraph. 

Executive Officers— Continued. 

to read general orders of the department publicly 764 

allowed to sleep in a vacant cabin 972 

authority of, as to marines and marine officers 1315, 1316 

to take precedence as members of boards. 1546 

Executive Officers of Navy Yards: 

to act in place of commandant in absence or illness. .. 1109 
to direct the fire department, examine engines, report, 

&c ■;'.•.. 1117 

to be the senior line officers attached to a yard 1143 

to take precedence after the commandant — his author- 
ity . 1144 

to regulate the police of the yard, correct abuses and 

report 1145 

when absent, the line officer next in rank to attend to 

the duties of — no senior officer to be employed 1146 

Expense-Books. ( See Books. ) 
Ex-Presidents : 

visiting a naval vessel or station, how received 656, 682 

F. 

Firemen : 

to be arranged in watches 330, 333 

their specific duties to be shown by bills 331 

to be supplied with oatmeal gratuitously 491 

to be instructed in their duties 502 

reported negligent or incapaole 914, 917 

may be rated as a petty officer on enlistment 1351 

to pass satisfactory examinations 1352 

may be enlisted to fill vacancies on foreign stations 1367 

extra pay for re-enlisting after honorable discharge. . . 1495 
reduced pay of, when incapable 1516 

Fires on Board Ships : 

commanding officer to have the means of extinguishing. 326 

to be extinguished when powder is moved 365, 623 

executive officer in case of 377 

of the engineer department 219, 494, 506 

master-at-arms to release confined persons in case of. . 601 

master-at-arms to extinguish at the proper hour 603 

to be extinguished when the magazine is to be opened. 605, 623 
to be extinguished at tattoo, except 791 

First Assistant Engineers. (See Engineers, First Assistant) 

Fishing Vessels : 

lights to be carried by, to prevent collisions 928 

Flags. (See Colors.) 

of enemies, during an engagement 286, 287 

red, to be hoisted at the fore when powder is moved. . . 365 

national, to be in charge of the navigator 440 

national, when distinguished men and officers are 
received 655, 656, 659 



332 INDEX. . 

No. of paragraph. 

Flags — Continued, 

national, on anniversary celebrations 692 

national, when flag-ships enter a foreign port 710 

national, all boats should carry in foreign countries . .. 762 

on a neutral vessel seized as prize 1018 

Flags, Distinguishing. (See Signal- Boole.) 

of a commander-in-chief , 33, 51 

of squadrons or divisions 122, 128, 674, 726 

of a superior officer, embarked as a passenger 641 

of an admiral 665, 666 

carried on boats passing other boats . . 717 

half-masted, on the death of officers . . . .725 to 732, 735, 741, 749 

to be carried in funeral processions. . . 742, 748 

when different convoys are in company * 998 

when the Secretary of the Navy visits a vessel of war. 752 

where flags of officers are to be carried 753 

when divisional commanders are not to wear. 754 

what officers shall wear a narrow pennant at the main. 755 
what officers may wear a flag at the bow of the boat. . 756 
of a commander-in-chief to be worn only when in com- 
mand ; senior officer present to wear, &c 757 

of an admiral, vice-admiral, rear-admiral, or com- 
modore when in command of a shore station 758 

commanding officers of fleets, squadrons, or divisions, 

to carry on the bow of their barges 760 

to be allowed on no other grades 761 

in foreign countries, boats to carry the national flag . . 762 

when different convoys are in company 998 

Flags of Truce : 

to be regarded as sacred in their character 1036 

improper use of, subject to punishment as a spy 1037 

to be sent or received 'by senior officer only, &c 1038 

circumspection to be observed in admitting „ . . 1039 

unnecessary frequency in use of, to be avoided 1040 

on the water, how and where to be received. 1041 

precautions in dispatching 1042 

with the white flag, the ensign to be exhibited 1043 

rules for admission of, during battle 1044 

when flags are hoisted on hospitals and other buildings . 1045 

Flag-Ships : 

of commanders-in-chief 34, 35 

fleet paymasters to be attached to 539 

in port to carry a top-light at night 675 

of foreign vessels arriving in the United States 698 

foreign, at sea or in foreign ports, salutes to 709 

of different nations, meeting in a foreign port 710 

Fleet Captains. (See Chief of Staff.) 

when the commander-in-chief is killed in battle 640 

Fleet Engineers. (See Engineers, Fleet.) 



INDEX. 333 

N/o. of paragraph. 

Fleet Paymasters. (See Paymasters, Fleet.) 

Fleet Surgeon. (See Surgeon of the Fleet.) 

Fog Signals : 

when to be carried ; description of 406, 9*29 

Foreign Chief Magistrate. (See Foreign Sovereigns or 

Chief Magistrates.) 659, 682 

Foreign Officers and Officials : 

visiting a naval vessel or station 659, 682, 696, 703, 714 

courtesies to be extended to 697 to 704 

visits of, received and returned by the port admiral. .. 1105 

Foreign Sovereigns or Chief Magistrates : 

yisiting a naval vessel or station 659, 682 

Foreign Vessels of War : 

arriving in a port of the United States 697, 698, 699 

when to be saluted 700 

when their national salutes shall be returned 702 

celebrating their national festivals in ports of the 

United States 707 

civilities to be rendered to, in foreign ports 708 

when supplies may be furnished to 787 

Foremen : 

under ehief engineer of a yard, to report bi-monthly.. 1189 

to conduct employes of a yard to the pay office 1219 

under naval constructors, to report bi-monthly 1236 

under civil engineers, to report bi-monthly 1247 

how applications for the position should be made. 1251 

how vacancies in the office shall be filled 1252 

duties of, in keeping accounts of labor 1253 

to have immediate control of those under them, &c. .. 1254 

to attend surveys and conversions of materials 1255 

their duties in the selection of workmen 1256 

to make daily reports of materials used 1257 

no article to be taken or used without their knowledge. 1258 
to be regular in their attendance and paid accordingly 1259 
not to leave the yard during working hours, except — 1260 
persons dismissed for misconduct not to be employed . 1261 
nominations to office of, to be accompanied by testimo- 
nials 1262 

to whom preference is to be given in employment 1263 

Forms, Blank : 

when not furnished to be prepared in manuscript . 851 

Forts : 

not to be saluted 687 

colors to be hoisted when passing 790 

Fraud : 

persons cognizant of, in contractors or agents, to report- 773 

discovered by surveying officers to be reported 1399 

Freight : 

on treasure received on board ship, how to be divided. 842 

on articles to be procured by a purchasing agent 1289, 1290 



334 INDEX. 

No. of paragraph. 
Funerals : 

when to be superintended by the executive officer 393 

processions, the order and arrangement of 737 to 748, 750 

Funeral Expenses: 

of those dying in actual service, when to be paid 1503 

Funeral Honors : 

on the death of the President of the United States 725 

on the death of commander of fleet, squadron, or di- 
vision . . 726 

on the death of a commander of a vessel . . 727 

on the death of other commissioned officers . . . 728 

on the death of a warrant officer . . 729 

on the death of an officer not of the line 730 

on the death of a petty officer or person of inferior 

rating , 731 

on the death of an officer or private of the Marine Corps . 732 
in a foreign country when not practicable to fire at the 

grave 733 

on the death of naval persons on shore — additional 

honors for distinguished service 734 

regulations for placing colors at half-mast 735 

not to be paid before sunrise nor after sunset 736 

when a death occurs on a vessel in a foreign port 737 

on the death of a commissioned officer in a foreign port . 738 
when notice is given of the funeral of a foreign officer. 739 
attendance of officers and men to be as large as prac- 
ticable . 740 

order of funeral processions in boats 741 

general regulations of funeral processions 742 

order of funeral procession on reaching the shore 743 

body-bearers and hearse . . . , . 744 

the pall-bearers 745 

foreign officers to be invited to act as pall-bearers .... 746 
to march in common time and return in quick time. . . 747 
flag and pennant to be carried — drapery removed be- 
fore return 748 

the colors not to be hauled down from half-mast, &c. . 749 

order of processions and reversal at funerals 750 

Furloughs : 

officers on, restrictions on their movements 805 

officers on, not to be assigned to duty by an officer 897 

to officers, granted only by the department 1431 

officers on, not to wear their uniforms, except 1432 

given to paymasters rendering their final accounts 1545 

Furniture : 

of a vessel, commanding officer to account for 307 

of officers' apartments, not to be altered or changed, 

except - 782 



INDEX. 335 

G. 

No. of paragraph. 
Gambling : 

prohibited everywhere under control of the depart- 
ment ., 794 

General Orders and Circulars. (See Navy Department, 
General Orders and Circulars of.) 

Gold: 

percentage on freight of, how to be distributed 842 

Good-Conduct Badges: 

when to be given — their advantages 1076 

Governor of the Naval Asylum. (See Naval Asylwnii) 

Governors of States : 

how to be received when they visit a vessel 658 

Gunners : 

to examine articles and stores and report 469 

responsible for articles not in charge of yeoman 470 

to request a survey of stores that are injured 471 

to be watchful of person having charge of their 

stores, &c 472 

duties of, when a ship is about to be dismantled 473 

to report twice daily to the executive officer 357, 474 

to have charge of anchor and life-buoys 480 

to report the powder expended after an action 481 

responsibility for condition of ordnance and stores 482 

considered as officers of the line, by usage 631 

qualifications required for appointment 863 

board for the examination of 874 

warrants, after service under acting appointments 903 

apartment to be occupied by, on board shij) 977 

sea service of, from what day to be computed 1512 

none but seamen gunners eligible to the position of. . . 1562 

Gunners' Mates: 

to rank as petty officers of the line 647 

Gunners, Seamen. (See Seamen Gunners.) 

Guns: 

vessels mounting less than ten guns not to fire salutes. 688 

marines on vessels, to be exercised at the 1311, 1312 

H. 
Health : 

the preservation of, duties of commanding officers. . .941 to 958 
Heirs : 

balances due deceased seamen and marines, payable to. 1531 

if minors, guardians should be appointed 1534 

Heirship : 

how to be established 1533 

Honorable Discharges. (See Discliar ges, Honorable.) 
Hospital Ships: 

to be frequently inspected 72 



336 INDEX. 

Xo. of paragraph. 

Hospitals : 

to be frequently inspected . . 72 

when sick or wounded men are sent to 955 

sent to, from a vessel lying in the port 956 

should not be fired upon B 1045 

men transferred to, to be accompanied by their accounts 1053 

men transferred to, entitled to honorable discharges . . 1062 

clothing furnished to men in 1215 

when officers of the navy are admitted into 1210 

the re-admission of officers to 1211 

the surgeon of, his additional duties 1212 

surgeon's duties, when patients recover whose vessel 

has sailed. 1213 

surgeon's duties, when an enlisted person recovers 

whose time is out 1214 

statements of clothing ; regulations of, to be submitted 1215 

men received in, continuing disabled after treatment . . 1418 

deaths in, examination and reports to be made 1420 

persons in, not entitled to pay after term of enlistment 1517 

I. 

Inspections : 

of vessels of a squadron, by the commander-in-chief... 69 to 71 

of hospitals and hospital ships 72 

of the boats of a fleet or squadron 73 

of steam machinery and boilers, quarterly 108 

of the vessels of squadrons or divisions 117 

morning and evening, at quarters 176 

of vessels, by their commanders 181 

of vessels, when officers are relieved from command... 271, 306 

of stores, by the equipment officer '. , 430 

by fleet engineers, on board vessels 484, 485, 486 

by the surgeon of the fleet, on board vessels 518, 519 

by the fleet paymaster, on board vessels 540, 541 

of chain cables, quarterly 615 

of vessels fitting for, or returning from, a cruise 1100 

of recruits by surgeons of navy yards 1209 

by the civil engineer . 1244 

by inspectors at yards and stations 1300 

of clothing of marines, by their commander 1317 

of the rations of marines at yards 1338 

of recruits on receiving vessels 1368, 1369 

of articles received at yards or stations 1396 

of articles received, when receipts ma} 7 be given 1480 

Inspectoes of Machinery afloat. (See Engineers, Chief, 
as Inspectors of Machinery afloat.) 

Inspectors in charge of Paymaster's stores : 

at navy yards, general duties ol 1224 

what the term " stores " is understood to mean 1225 






INDEX. 337 

No. of paragraph. 

Inspectors est Charge of Paymaster's Stores — Continued.* 

to exercise constant supervision, issue of clothing 1226 

to certify approval before receipts can be given 1480 

Inspectors at Navy Yards and Stations : 

their accountability and general and special duties 1300 

to certify their approval before receipts can be given. . 1480 
time allowed for settlement of accounts 1544 

Inventors : 

certificates not to be given to 1293 

Iron Vessels : 

to be frequently examined, &c 628 

J. 

Jewels : 

per-centage on freight or safe-keeping of, how distrib- 
uted 842 

Journals : 

to be kept by chiefs of staff 133 

to be kept by officers commanding vessels 257 

of a captured vessel, to be seized 288 

of midshipmen 310, 464, 466, 468 

to be kept by the surgeon of the fleet , 517 

of surgeons on vessels . 531 

to be kept by a line officer at a yard 1122 

Justices of the Supreme Court : ' 

how to be received when they visit a vessel 658 

K. 

Keys: 

of the holds and store-rooms on board ship, disposition 
of 368 

the use of, by the master-at-arms 602 

of store-houses in yards, charge and disposition of 1265 

Knives: 

sheath, forbidden ; jack, how to be worn 820 

:l. 

Lamps, Spirit: 

the use of, prohibited, on vessels 791 

Landsmen : 

on vessels, to be instructed - 227 

provisions relating to the enlistment of 1344 

on receiving vessels, to be instructed 1378 

extra pay, on re-enlisting after honorable discharge . . . 1495 

Lanterns: 

as precautions against collisions *- 325 

on vessels, for lighting pipes and cigars 622 

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338 INDEX. 

No. of paragraph. 
Leaves of Absence : 

comniander-in-chief to issue orders regulating 103 

applications for, how to be transmitted 147 

how many granted to officers or men at one time 224 

crew to wear proper uniform and leave their knives . . . 225 

to he recorded in liberty book 228 

at a yard or station, the commandant's authority re- 
quired , < . 302 

by the executive officer, under orders 374 

to midshipmen, when granted - 468 

to marine officers at navy yards . 1330 

from the United States, granted only bv the depart- 
ment 1423 

when commanding officers may grant for one week 1424 

to commanders-in-chief and commandants of yards and 

stations 1425 

to return home from abroad, &c, not to be granted, ex- 
cept 1426 

officers applying for, on account of ill health 1427 

temporary, by commanding officers, to officers 1428 

to petty officers and men to visit the shore 1429 

not to be granted to enlisted men who are in debt, ex- 
cept ._...-. 1430 

temporary, does not detach nor affect the pay of an 

officer.. 1520 

seamen gunners may receive five months', when 1566 

Liberty Book. (See Books.) 

Lieutenant Commanders, Lieutenants, and Masters : 

are the navigating, watch, and division officers 402 

execution of orders, oversight of subordinates, report- 
ing misconduct, &c 403 

taking charge of a watch 404, 405 

lights, sounding signals in fogs, approaching and pass- 
ing vessels 406 

to inform the commanding officer of occurrences 407 

carrying sail or steam 408 

not to change the course without orders, unless, &c. 409 
on discovering a strange sail at night, or in a fog, 

during war - 410 

duties of, at night 411 

not to make any signal without orders, unless, &c 412 

what to carry and to wear in wet weather 413 

to see that officers, &c, coming on board, have due 

marks of respect 414 

boats coming alongside, receiving and delivering stores . 415 

when boats leave the ship 416 

to see that an account is taken of all stores received 

or delivered 417 

stopping the engines or working them at full speed 418 



INDEX. 339 

No. of paragraph. 
Lieutenant Commanders, &c. — Continued. 

to see the conductors, life-buoys, heaving-lines, and 
drift-leads ready for service, and a boat ready for 

lowering . . 419 

to take an order book, &c 420 

duties of an officer commanding a division of guns and 

men 421 

classed as officers of the line 630 

rule of nomination for the promotion of 899 

Lieutenant Commanders. (See Lieutenant Commanders, 
Lieutenants and Masters.) 

command and employment of 12 

qualifications for promotion to the grade of 899 

Lieutenants. (See Lieutenant Commanders, Lieutenants, and 
Masters.) 

command and employment of 13 

when to take an order book 420 

qualifications for promotion to grade of 899, 901 

to be present at the muster of the employes of a yard. 1148 
Light-Houses : 

colors to be hoisted in passing 790 

Lights on board Vessels : 

the utmost care to be taken in the use of 326, 506 

required to be kept burning at night 406 

the yeoman to see that the regulations respecting, are 

observed .. 593 

the duties of the master-at-arms in relation to 602, 603, 605 

the duties of the commander in relation to 619, 623 

four, at night, in the temporary absence of an admiral. 667 
two, at night, in the temporary absence of a commo- 
dore ' 673 

at night, in port, flag-ships to carry a top-light 675 

one, at night, in the temporary absence of a com- 
mander 679 

when to be extinguished ; precautions in regard to 791 

to prevent collisions, directions respecting 918 to 928 

when to be extinguished on vessels at a yard 1114 

Line Officers : 

classification of by law . 630 

who are considered, by usage 631 

military command in vessels of war to be exercised by. 632 

relative rank of, with officers not of the line 635 

senior, when to discharge duties of a commander-in- 
chief 639 

senior, when to succeed commander-in-chief tempo- 
rarily 640 

in funeral processions 750 

stations of, when distinguished persons are received.. 751 

relations with army officers 844 



340 INDEX. 

No. of paragraph. 

Line Officers — Continued. 

how to be addressed when on duty 845 

senior, to preside at officers' messes 979 

at navy yards, duties of 1135, 1143 to 1149 

Liquors: 

distilled, what the law in relation to, does not include. 841 

Log-book : 

in shipwreck, special efforts to be made to save ... 295 

the executive officer to commence 341 

navigator to have charge of, his duties 444 

what entries should be made in 235, 316, 401, 445 

after being signed, making alterations in = . . 446 

copy of, to be sent to Bureau of Navigation 447 

original, .disposition of, when the vessel is paid off 448 

the stowage of the hold to be entered in 454 

navigator to sign, when removed or suspended 461 

gunners report for entry in, after an action 481 

discrepancy in the amount of coal to be entered in 500 

steam, by whom and when to be signed 505 

M. 

Machinists : 

may be transferred as petty officers 912 

reported negligent or incapable, to be reduced 914, 917 

examinations of . . . 1352 

reduced pay of, When negligent or incapable 1516 

Magazine : 

vessels to discharge powder at, before going to a yard. 301 

when about to be opened, duty of executive officer 364 

the gunner responsible for the good condition of 482 

when about to be** opened, duty of master-at-arms 605 

precautions to be taken when opened 623 

not to be opened without the consent of the commander. 624 

Mails: 

to be delivered immediately on arrival in port 837 

Marine Corps, Commandant of : 

the detail of officers and men for vessels 1302 

to direct the accounts on ship to be kept 1320 

duties of, in the withdrawal of men at navy yards 1324 

Marine Corps, Officers of : 

their relative rank and precedence 636, 637 

non-commissioned, their relative rank 654 

when not to exercise command over others 645 

funeral honors on the death of 732 

how they should be addressed 845 

apartment on shipboard, of the senior 975 

who may give orders to, on ship-board 1316 

Marines, Non-Commissioned Officers of : 

their relative rank 652, 654 

not to exercise command out of their corps, except 653 



INDEX. 341 

Ko. of paragraph . 
Marines, Non-Commissioned Officers of — Continued. 

dying, funeral honors to 732 

on ship-board, reductions and promotions of 1319 

at yards, reductions and promotions of 13*29 

at yards, granting liberty to 1330 

Marines at Navy Yards : 

subject to the orders of the commandant ; how they 

may be withdrawn 1324 

officers ordered to relieve others, to whom to report.. . 1325 
disposition of sentinels — reports to be made to the com- 
mandant 1326 

countersigns for the night, when and by whom issued. 1327 

the polite and internal government of, who shall direct 1328 

promotions and reduction sof non-commissioned officers . 1329 

granting leaves of absence to officers and others of the. 1330 
official communications to go through commandant of 

yard - 1331 

deficiencies in the complements of, on vessels about to 

sail 1332 

offenses committed by, how to be dealt with 1333 

to conform to regulations of the commandant .... 1334 

in military exercises, to conform to army regulations . . . 1335 
when transferred from one station to another, returns of 1336 
officers of, to assist in preparing rolls, reports, returns, 

keeping books, &c , 1337 

officers of the day, to inspect provisions, meals, &c 1338 

to wear the prescribed uniform 1339 

when deserters are apprehended or surrender. . ....... 1340 

commanding officer of, to have a daily drill, &c - 1341 

Marines, when Embarked : 

to be supplied with tickets of their stations 347 

officer commanding, receives orders of the day from the 

executive officer 372 

officer commanding, signs requisitions for clothing, &c, 568 

accounts of such as die, desert, or are transferred. ..... 569 

non-commissioned officers of, their relative rank 4 . . 652, 654 

funeral honors on the death of 732 

position of, when distinguished persons are received... 751 

detail of officers and men for vessels 1302 

when the vessel is ready for their reception 1303 

the treatment of, when received on board 1304 

the senior officer to report daily the state of the guard. 1305 

not to be diverted from their appropriate duties,except. 1306 

may be furnished with clothing and small stores 1307 

the senior officer to have charge of the clothing 1308 

commanding officer of, to be accountable for arms, ac- 

couterments, and clothing 1309 

joining a vessel of war, to be accompanied by officers.. 1310 

to be exercised in the duties of the soldier, &c 1311 



342 INDEX. 

No. of paragraph. 
Marines, when Embarked — Continued. 

to be instructed as gun's crews, &c 1312 

not on guard, to be subject to orders of sea officers 1313 

general and special orders to sentinels of 1314 

misbehavior on duty to be reported 1315 

officers of, wlio may give orders to 1316 

commanding officers of, to be attentive to comfort, &c. 1317 

repairing the arms and accouterments of 1318 

reductions and promotions of non-commissioned offi- 
cers of - 1319 

accounts of, by whom to be kept and forwarded 1320 

officers of, one to be always on board for duty, except. . 1321 
to remain on board, when a vessel is going out of com- 
mission 132& 

officers of, commanding a guard, entitled to an allow- 
ance 1504 

Masters. (See Lieutenant Commanders, Lieutenants, and 
Masters :) 

duties of, and to what class of vessels attached 14 

rule for promotion of. ... 899, 901 

promoted from ensigns, not eligible to advancement, 

except '. 900 

serving on naval steamers to be taught steam enginery. 902 

may be present at the muster of the employe's of a yard. 1148 
Masters at Arms : 

duty of, in regard to bum-boats 389 

as chief of police and on the berth deck _ 599 

to keep an account of offenses, and furnish report 600 

to release those confined in case of fire or sudden dan- 
ger, &c 601 

to see that the hold and storerooms are locked, &c 602 

to have fires and lights extinguished at the proper 

hour 603 

to examine boats, and prevent liquor or other improper 

articles from being brought on board, &c 604 

when the magazine is to be opened 605 

to account for absentees at all general musters 606 

upon the death, desertion, or capture of any of the 

crew 607 

ship's corporals to assist, and the senior to discharge 

duties in absence 608 

to be the chief pe'tty officers — authority of 649 

appointment and examination of 892 

conditions of advance pay when ordered on distant 

service 1518 

Masters of the Band : 

to rank as petty officers 648 

Matches, Friction : 

not allowed on shipboard 619 



INDEX. 343 

No. of paragraph. 

Mates : 

their duties to be such as the conmiander may direct . . 483 

considered as line officers 631 

master's, qualifications for examination 861 

Mechanics : 

in foreign ports, employed in repairing merchant ves- 
sels 788 

in navy yards, employment and pay of 1110, 1138, 1218, 1261 

Medals of Honor : 

commanding officers to recommend for 256, 1094 

for seamen distinguished in battle, or by heroism 1093 

Medical Attendance : 

to persons not in the service, under certain exigencies. 827 

officers of the navy entitled to 828, 1211 

of naval persons at navy yards . 1205 

of families of officers attached to a yard 1208 

Members of the Cabinet. (See Cabinet, Members of.) 

Merchant Vessels : 

colliding with a vessel of the Navy 244 

in distress may be relieved 786 

in foreign ports, may be repaired by Navy mechanics. . 788 

steam, not to be hired to" tow naval vessels, unless 829 

Mess Boys : 

commendatory letters may be given to 1074 

Messes : 

of the crew to be superintended by the executive 

officer , 350,360 

relinquishment of by the crew, payable in money 558 

to officers from the public stores 565 

berth-deck, superintended by the master-at-arms 599 

of pilots on board ship 836, 1500 

of petty officers, separately on the berth deck . 892 

> of officers on board ship 966, 967, 973 

of officers as passengers 968 

of officers and of engineers, who shall preside 979 

of petty officers, by themselves 980 

boys to be distributed among the 981 

of officers of the Army and Navy, on transports 984 

of prisoners, on public vessels „ 1498 

Midshipmen : 

duties of, assigned by commanding officer 16 

duties of the executive officer, resx>ecting 383, 384 

required to procure a good sextant or octant, &c 

while at Naval Academy to be governed by its rules. . . 463 

preparations to be made for a cruise by 464 

to ascertain the position of the ship daily, &c 465 

to keep journals, &c 466 

to attend regularly to the means of instruction 467 

not to be granted leave unless, &c 468 



344 index. 

No. of paragraph. 
Midshipmen— C on tinned . 

the professor of mathematics to instruct ...... 580 

classed as officers of the line . 630 

serving on naval steamers, to be tanght steam enginery 902 

Mileage : 

when and to whom it may "he paid 1488 

Military Honors, Ceremonies and Salutes : 

to be observed by commanders-in-chief in foreign ports 46, 49, 50 

the chief-of-staff to have charge of important ceremo- 
nies 149 

when the President of the United States visits a vessel 

or station 655, 682 

when the Vice-President of the United States visits a 
vessel or station 656^682 

when an Ex-President of the United States visits a 
vessel or station 657, 682 

when members of the Cabinet, justices of the Supreme 

Court, or governors of States visit a vessel or station 658, 682 

when a committee of Congress visits a navy yard or 

station 658 

when a foreign sovereign, or chief magistrate of a for- 
eign republic visits a vessel or station 659, 682 

when members of a royal family visit a vessel or sta- 
tion 660,682 

when diplomatic ministers visit a vessel or station 661, 682 

when a charge d'affaires or commissioner visits a vessel 

or station 662, 682 

when a consul-general visits a vessel or station 663, 682 

when a consul visits a vessel or station 664, 682 

when an admiral assumes command, when his flag is 
hoisted and when he makes a visit of inspection 665 

when an admiral relinquishes his command afloat 666 

when an admiral leaves his flag-ship temporarily, or is * 

returning on board, and when absent at night 667 

when a vice-admiral assumes or relinquishes command, 
visits, &c - 668 

when a rear-admiral assumes or relinquishes command, 

visits, &c 669 

when a commodore assumes command, or makes visits 

of inspection 670 

when a senior or junior flag officer is present in com- 
mand at the time another flag officer assumes com- 
mand ~ 671 

when a commodore relinquishes his command afloat. . . 672 

when a commodore leaves his ship, or returns, and 

when absent at night with intent to return 673 

when a commander-in-chief visits a ship of his squad- • 

ron, flags not to be hoisted without orders 674 

flag-ships to carry a top-light at night in port 675 



index. 345 

Ko. of paragraph. 
Military Honors, &c— C on tinned. 

when a commander-in-chief visits a ship of a fleet not 

his own 676 

when an admiral, vice-admiral, rear-admiral, or com- 
modore employed on shore, but not in command of a 
yard or station, visits a vessel, on duty 677 

when an officer is appointed to command a single ves- 
sel 678 

when a commander, below rank of commodore, leaves 
his vessel, and when absent at night 679 

when an admiral, vice-admiral, rear-admiral or com- 
modore assumes or relinquishes command of a yard 

or station 680 

- what officers may be saluted ; return salutes 681 

when officers of the Army or Marine Corps visit a vessel 

yard, or station 683 

when commanding officers visit or leave vessels 685 

when commissioned or warrant officers visit or leave 

vessels . . , 685 

forts, castles, or cities of the United States not to be 

saluted 687 

vessels of less than ten guns not to fire, unless, &c, 
surveying vessels, storeships and transports, not to 
salute...' 688 

vessels mouuting ten or more guns, joining a fleet, to 
salute 689 

salutes when fleets, squadrons, and divisions meet 690 

salutes not to be tired in presence of a senior without 
permission 691 

in honor of the 4th July and 22d February 692 

when the national anniversary occurs on Sunday, to be 

deferred, &c 693 

when a vessel joins a commanding officer who is enti- 
tled to a salute on Sunday, to be deferred 694 

when vessels are in foreign ports, timely information 
to be given of celebrations, &c 695 

saluting, not to exhibit the ensign of another nation ; 

return and repetition of salutes 696 

on the arrival of a foreign vessel in a port of the United 

States 697 

if the foreign vessel be a flag-ship, &c 698 

if the foreign vessel is not a flag-ship 699 

if a foreign vessel salutes the United States 700 

duty of commandants of yards on the arrival of a for- 
eign vessel 701 

commandants of yards to return salutes of foreign ves- 
sels 702 

when officers of a foreign nation visit a vessel or station 703 

on the arrival of vessels in a foreign port 704, 705, 706 



346 INDEX. 

No. of paragraph. 

Military Honors, &c— Continued. 

when our vessels join in celebrating foreign festivals, 707 
interchange of civilities with foreign vessels in foreign 

ports 708 

when to salute flag-ships of other nations 709 

entering a foreign port where several flag-ships are 

present .-.. 710 

salutes of foreign ships to be returned gun for gun, &c. 711 

when to dip colors and lower sails to another vessel. .. 712 

when officers entitled to salutes embark for passage. .. 713 

a foreign official whose reception is not provided for.. 714 

general provisions in relation to salutes 715 

cheers not to be given to naval officers or men 716 

when officers in boats meet or pass other boats- ' 717 

duties of a sentinel when officers arrive or leave, &c. 71» 

inferiors and superiors to raise their caps in passing. . . 719 
salutes by officers and men on reaching and leaving the 

quarter-deck „ 720 

addressing the executive officer and officer of the deck. 722 

courtesies to officers of the Army and foreign officers.. 724 

Ministers : 

to receive the first visit from a commander-in-chief 45 

their official relations with a commander-in-chief 46, 52 

visiting a naval vessel or station, how received. 661, 682 

to pay their own expenses on naval vessels 1501 

Minors : 

claiming discharge, must apply to the courts 1056 

not to be enlisted under eighteen, without consent 1344 

payment of balances to, when heirs 1534 

Muster : 

of crew, before dismissing the pilot, on getting to sea . . 204 

master-at-arms to account for absentees at general 606 

of employe's in a yard, a line officer to be present 1148, 1153 

of employes in a yard, how, when, and by whom done 1284, 1285 

Muster Books : 

commanding officer to leave with his successor 270 

special efforts to be made to save from destruction .... 295 

approval of, responsibility of the commanding officer.. 1470 

directions for the entries in 1482, 1484, 1485 

Muster Kolls : 

kept by the executive officer 350 

paymasters to make no changes on, except 551 

of marines, to be kept by the commander of the guard 1320 

approval of, responsibility of the commanding officer.. 1470 

approval of, quarterly, sent with transferred men 1471 

to be sent to Fourth Auditor by paymasters 1525 

X. 

National Anniversaries : 

salutes and ceremonies on 692 

when occurring on Sunday : 693 



INDEX. 347 

No. of paragraph. 

National Anniversaries— Continued. 

the celebration of, in foreign ports 695 

foreign, participation by naval vessels in 707 " 

Naval Academy: 

applicants for admission to conform to regulations 857 

successful candidates allowed traveling expenses 880 

when boards are assembled at 1553 

Naval Asylum : 

regulations for the government of 1554 

Naval'C obstructors : 

qualifications of candidates for promotion to 909 

to furnish time clerks of , yards with lists of their em- 
ployes . . . 1136 

to act under the orders of the commandant 1227 

general and special duties of, at navy yards 1228, 1229 

to submit annual reports of work to the commandant 1230 

to make professional suggestions to the commandant.. 1231 

duty of, in relation to their employe's 1232 

duty of, in relation to the materials in their depart- 
ment 1233 

duty of, in relation to the accounts in their department 1234 

how to make requisitions for materials 1235 

to require semi-monthly reports from their foremen 1236 

responsible for waste and improper use of materials J 237 

te keep accounts of materials and labor and report .... 1238 

to make monthly examinations of vessels, and report.. 1239 

Naval Constructors, Assistant : 

qualifications of a candidate for appointment 867 

boards for the examination of 874 

requirements of prior to promotion 909 

Naval Stations : 

by whom they may be commanded 7, 8, 9, 10 

when visited by distinguished persons 682, 683, 714 

ceremonies to be observed at, on the death of the Presi- 
dent 725 

gambling prohibited at 794 

Sunday to be observed at 843 

officers transferred from to be furnished with their ac- 
counts 1053, 1054 

names of 1301 

letter-books to be kept at 1463 

Naval Stations, Commandants of : 

officers reporting to, will pay a visit of courtesy 684 

when a foreign vessel of war arrives in the United States 701 

when they may return national salutes of vessels of war 702 
to post copies of General Orders and Circulars received 765, 766 
when officers may apply for copies of General Orders 

and Circulars to 767 

to assist in the apprehension of criminals 792 



348 INDEX. 

No. of paragraph 
Naval Stations, Commandants of — Continued. 

' delivering orders detaching officers 821 

to forward monthly reports of punishments . _ „ 850 

to indorse date of reporting for duty on orders of of- 
ficers . 852 

to report the arrival and departure of vessels 855 

to suggest improvements in the book of allowances .... 856 

duties of in the apprehension of deserters 1087 

to conform to the regulations for commandants of navy 

yards, so far as they may be applicable 1301 

to send a marine guard to place of embarkation 1303 

when a commander is dissatisfied with a draft of men. . 1383 

to make orders for surveys 1390, 1392 

not to leave their command over one week without per- * 

mission 1425 

to number their letters to the department 1441 

to certify to open purchases 1537 

Navigation Officers of Navy Yards : 

to take charge of articles under cognizance of bureau. . 1161 

to scrutinize requisitions, take receipts, &c 1162 

to examine, weigh, or measure articles received, &c. 1163 

to supervise work, have general superintendence, &c. 1164 

to prepare .pay-rolls, certify, and forward to bureau.. . 1165 

to take receipts, to inventory articles furnished, &c. . - 1166 

to attend sales and surveys 1167 

to dispose of condemned stores 1168 

to furnish statement of stores landed from a vessel. . . . 1169 

to supply vessels with articles, taking receipts, &c 1170 

to examine with reference to the compasses, and report 1171 

to make timely requisitions ; responsible for deficiencies 1172 
Navigators : 

lieutenant commanders, lieutenants, and masters may 

be 12,13,14 

to be the line officer next in rank to executive officer. 438 

at sea, to make .daily reports - '. 439 

to have charge of instruments, books, charts, flags, 

signals 440 

to examine compasses, time-glasses, log and lead lines. 441 

to examine charts, note errors, and report them 442 

when vessels are approaching land, shoals, entering 

port, or in any danger 443 

to have charge of the log-book, &c 444 

the particulars that shall be entered on the log 445 

no alterations to be made in log, except, &c 446 

to deliver certified copy of log, every six months 447 

original log-book to be kept till vessel is paid off, &c. 448 

to keep a remark book, its contents, &c 449 

to prepare a skeleton chart of cruising ground, &c 450 

to keep a book of calculations, disposal of 451 






INDEX. 349 

No, of paragraph. 

Navigators — Continued. 

*if ordered before stowage, to superintend, &c 452 

directions in relation to stowing provisions, &c 453 

to make entry on log, when stowage is finished, &c. . 454 

to note plans of stowage on log, and changes 455 

when to furnish the commander with plans of stowage. 456 

to visit the hold and cable tiers and chain lockers, &c. 457 

to report the same to the executive officer, &c 458 

to have supervision over the anchors and cables 459 

to care for and report expenditure of fuel and water .. 460 

when removed or suspended 461 

not to keep watch, unless required by the commander. 462 

accountability for the instruments and arms on a prize. 1020 

to receipt for the books allowed his vessel 1486 

to examine quarterly and report missing books, &c. .. 1487 

Navy Department, General Orders and Circulars of : 

attention of all persons belonging to the Navy called to . 763 

to be publicly read, officers to preserve a copy 764 

will be sent to yards and stations for distribution 765 

to be posted three months at yards and stations 766 

officers on duty to apply to commandants for ; not on 

duty to apply to the department for 767 

Navy Yards : 

when a vessel is being equipped at 159 to 162 

gifts from employes of, should not be accepted 812 

the line officer next to the executive officer to super- 
intend 1147 

employe's of, not to be absent in working hours 1260 

persons dismissed for misconduct not to be employed. . 1261 
honorably discharged or wounded preferred as employes 

in 263 

the muster of workmen at 1284 

a check officer required at ; his duties 1285 

letter-books to be kept at 1463 

correspondence with private parties by subordinate of- 
ficials of 1464 

Navy Yards, Commandants of : 

duties of in the equipment of vessels 159, 161 

to transmit original log-books to Bureau of Navigation 448 

officers reporting to will pay a visit of courtesy 684 

when a foreign vessel of war arrives in the United 

States 701 

when they may return national salutes of war vessels 702 
to post copies of general orders and circulars three 

months 766 

when officers may apply for copies of general orders, to. 767 

to assist in the apprehension of criminal offenders 792 

delivering orders detaching officers 821 

to forward monthly reports of punishments 850 



350 INDEX. 

No. of paragraph. 
Navy Yards, Commandants of— Continued. 

to indorse date of reporting for duty on orders of offi- 
cers 852 

to report arrival and departure of vessels 855 

to suggest improvements in the book of allowances.. . 856 

to furnish commanders with inventories 959 

to discharge yeoman when their accounts are correct.. 1061 

duties of, in the apprehension of deserters 1087 

when charged with the duties of a port admiral 1107 

authority and responsibility of 1108 

the executive officer to act in absence or illness of 1109 

the employment of mechanics and others 1110 

to determine the rates of wages by those of private es- 
tablishments . . „ • 1111 

to approve pay-rolls and bills for supplies 1112 

duties in relation to labor, materials, reports, and re- 
turns .: . ..." 1113 

duties in regard to lights, fires, &c 1114 

to organize a fire department, see to fire-engines, &c. 1115 

refusal of employes to join fire company, and absence. . 1116 

how an alarm of fire is to be given 1118 

the extinguishment of adjacent fires 1119 

not to allow alterations, purchase of surplus stores, or 

sales, unless 1120 

the night pass-word and countersign may be issued by 1121 

a journal to be kept ; subjects to be noted 1122 

to forward monthly reports of vessels ~ 1123 

when a vessel is placed in ordinary, or to be repaired. . 1124 

the commander of a vessel to point out defects to 1125 

employment of officers of a vessel refitting or being re- 
paired 1126 

quarters of officers and crew of a vessel being repaired 1127 
repair of vessels to be sanctioned by the department, 

except 1128 

reports to the bureau of vessels being repaired 1129 

the equipment of a vessel in ordinary 1130 

what to be furnished when a vessel is equipped 1131 

when directed to build, equip, or repair a vessel, or con- 
struct a building 1132 

when requisitions are made for articles not in store 1133 

to keep a bill-book and duplicates of requisitions 1134 

duties of officers of the navy employed in navy-yards 1135 

time clerks to have lists of distribution of workmen. . . 1136 

to have articles passing in or out of the yard examined 1137 

to impress the duty of conforming to the regulations. . 1138 

will not allow smoking, except 1139 

to cause the gates to be closed at sunset, &c 1140 

alterations of the hull, masts, spars, boats, &c, of a 

vessel 1141 

when a vessel is transferred at the end of a cruise 1142 



INDEX. 351 

No. of paragraph. 
Navy Yards, Commandants of — Continued. 

to approve requisitions for stores before being procured . 1246,1286 
sanction of to purchases and expenses of purchasing 

agents .... 1294 

to send a marine guard to the place of embarkation. . 1303 

when a marine detachment is serving at a yard 1324 to 1334 

. the apprehension of deserters reported to 1340 

when a commanding officer is dissatisfied with a draft 

of men 1383 

authorized to make orders for surveys 1390, 1392 

when an enlisted person is disabled, after treatment in 

hospital 1418 

when a naval person dies in a naval hospital 1420 

not to leave their command more than one week, ex- 
cept 1425 

certificates given by, to open purchases 1537 

to number their correspondence with the dex>artinent . . 1441 

duties of, in the api3roval of requisitions 1469 

responsibility of, in the approval of bills 1472, 1474 

Navy Pension Fund : 

allowance to, from percentage on freight or safe-keep- 
ing of treasure 842 

Neutrality : 

the laws of, to be observed 94, 97 

Night Order Book. (See Books.) 
Nurses : 

appointment and examination of 892, 893 

O. 

Oatmeal : 

to be issued to firemen and coal-heavers 491 

Offenses: 

not susceptible of trial by court-martial 67 

that cannot be tried immediately, duties of command- 
er-in-chief 68 

on vessels, infraction of the rules and regulations 359 

of petty officers and others of inferior ratings to be re- 
ported 600 

the authority to punish, defined by law 769 

robbery of public property 784 

persons accused of, when to be delivered to the civil 

authority 792, 793 

charged with, in foreign waters and deserting 1090 

liable to court-martial, not to be prejudged 817 

by army officers or men on naval vessels 986, 987 

when enlisted persons may be discharged for. ..1055, 1057, 1059 

by marines at navy yards, to whom reported 1333 

Officers commanding Vessels. (See Commanding Officers 

of Vessels.) 
Officers commanding Steam Vessels. (See Commanding 
Officers of Steam Vessels.) 



352 mDEX. 

No. of paragraph. 

Officers in charge of Stores : 

what stores to have charge of and responsible for 1264 

to have charge of keys of storehouses, &c 1265 

when and how to make requisitions for stores 1266 

not to receipt for articles delivered, until 1267 

all articles received to he entered on their books. . 1268 

not to deliver articles for other objects than those for 

which they were received, except 1269 

directions for the delivery of articles uponrequsitions. 1270 

when and how to deliver articles to vessels 1271 

directions for taking receipts and keeping accounts.. . 1272 

the examination of accounts for supplies furnished 1273 

articles surveyed, condemned, or recommended for 

repair . . . . 1274 

the replenishing and preservation of stores 1275 

may issue articles, not exactly such as called for 1276 

responsible for shipment of stores 1277 

invoices to accompany all shipments 1278 

to keep their books, &c, as prescribed by the depart- 
ment „ . 1279 

when articles are purchased on account of contractor's 

failure..... 1280 

when relieved, to transfer to their successors 1281 

Officers, Marine. (See Marine Corps, Officers of.) 
Officers not of the Line : 

classification of 633 

not to exercise military command in vessels of war. .. 634 

relative rank of, with line officers 635 

not to exercise authority except in their own depart- 
ment 638 

funeral ceremonies on the death of 730 

how to be addressed : 845 

assignment of state-rooms for 976 

Officers of the Deck : 

to be designated by carrying a spy glass 195 

steam engineers to conform to the orders of 329, 511 

in absence of commanders, executive officers may di- 
rect, &c 371 

executive officers to draw up the routine for 373 

the temperature of coal bunkers to be reported to 503 

engineers to make hourly and special reports to 512, 513 

orders given to, entered on the night order book 626 

the representatives of their commanding officers 644 

to attend at the reception and departure of an admiral, 

vice-admiral, rear-admiral, and commodore . 667, 668, 

669, 670, 672, 673 
to attend the arrival and departure of commissioned 

officers 686 

all officers going on shore or returning to report to ... « 721 



INDEX. 353 

No. of paragraph. 
Officers of the Deck— Continued. 

when addressed, to be saluted by touching the cap 722 

orders to, at night, must be in writing 806 

to report in cases of collision . . 940 

may give special orders to marine sentinels on spar 

deck 1314 

duty of, in cases of reported misbehavior of marines. 1315 

may give orders to marine officers of superior rank 1316 

Officers of the Line. (See Line Officers.) 
Officers of the Navy : 

appointed to the command of vessels, duties of. .158 to 311, 612 

to 629 
appointed to the command of steam vessels, duties of. 312 to 335 

advances of pay to 566 

rank and command of the several grades 630 to 638 

junior, when embarked as passengers, not assignable to 

duty, except 642 

cannot put themselves on duty, by virtue of commis- 
sion 643 

of what rank entitled to salutes 681 

reporting to commandant of yard, to pay visit of cour- 
tesy 1 684 

cheers never to be given to 716 

ceremonies to be observed by, in passing other officers 

in boats 717 

ceremonies in meeting, addressing, or passing 719 

ceremonies in coming on board or leaving ships 720 

to report to the officer of the deck on leaving and re- 
turning 721 

the use of accommodation ladders by .- 723 

not to omit courtesies to Army and foreign officers 724 

decease of, ceremonies to be observed 726 to 750 

to apply for copies of General Orders and Circulars, 

monthly 767 

enjoined to promote the efficiency of the service 768 

Tio w to exercise authority, and punish offenses 769 

to treat superiors with respect and set a proper example 771 

to report oppression or misconduct of superiors, &c — 772 

to report fraud or misconduct of agents or contractors. 773 

in relation to contradictory orders of superiors 774 

diverting others from a required service 775 

to put in writing orders countermanding written or- 
ders, &c 776 

not to exchange duties without permission 777 

in command, meeting superiors in command, and when 

they have confidential orders to execute 778 

sent on detached duty and arriving within the limits 

commanded by an officer of the same fleet or squadron 779 

when to be regarded as on detached duty 780 

23 N R 



354 INDEX. 

No. of paragraph- 
Officers of the Navy — Continued. 

when vessels are in company, senior officer to regulate. 781 
deviations in construction, repair, armament, and equip- 
ment of vessels, changes in furniture 782 

to avoid unnecessary expenditures, &c 783 

proceedings in cases of robbery and loss of money or 

property 784 

public stores not to be appropriated to private use by . . 785 

to assist merchant vessels in distress for want of stores _ 786 

when to furnish supplies to foreign ships of war 787 

when mechanics ruay be* allowed to repair merchant 

vessels by 788 

to have no interest in contracts or purchases, &c 789 

when a naval person is accused of a capital crime 7^2 

to deliver fugitives from justice in a foreign port 793 

not to have pecuniary transactions with enlisted men 

or petty officers § 795 

incurring and discharging debts „ . . . . 796 

not on duty,- to keep the department advised of address 797 
detached from duty, to notify of their intended resi- 
dence 798 

to acknowledge the receipt of orders, &c 799 

the time within which orders to duty shall be obeyed, 

&c... 800 

to conform to the regulations for uniform 801 

to communicate useful information 802 

not to publish hydrographic or ordnance information . . 803 

their residence, to communicate changes of 804 

under arrest, suspension or furlough, restrictions on 

their movements . . 805 

not to upbraid others for refusing challenges 807 

to report language tending to insubordination 808 

combinations of, to make complaints to or against su- 
periors 809 

presents to superiors from inferiors forbidden, &c 810 

regulations concerning written testimonials of conduct 811 

not to accept testimonials from employes in navy yards 812 

not to communicate naval or military intelligence 813 

not to discuss military or naval movements before 

others 814 

not to communicate naval or military information in 

letters 815 

publication of private transactions prohibited 816 

not to prejudge matters liable to come before courts- 
martial 817 

to order investigation of accidents, &c, and make re- 
port 818 

not to interfere personally in the arrest of drunken men, 

&c .. ... 319 



INDEX. 355 

No. of paragraph. 
Officers of the Navy — Continued. 

detachment of. when a vessel is laid up 821 

ordered to duty, when their names are on the books of 

a yard . : . . . 822 

returning home, under orders or permission to report. 823, 824 

what will be regarded as sea-service of 825 

entitled to sea pay while on coast survey vessels 826 

medical, ordered to attend persons not in the service. . 827 

are entitled to medical attendance, &c, whether &i or 

off duty 828 

families of, not allowed as passengers, unless 838 

Sunday to be observed by, &c 843 

not to claim rank by virtue of a temporary position . . . 846 

ordered to duty on a vessel to report, &c 854 

failing to present themselves for examination 877 

absent from the examinations of others of their dates. . 879 

who may give acting appointments „ 884 

conferring acting appointments or filling vacancies.. . 888 

holding acting appointments, or orders to duties of a 

higher grade . 889 

when allowed to appoint clerks or secretaries 891 

on leave or furlough, not to be ordered on duty, except 897 

promoted, while commanding a vessel abroad 898 

will not be promoted to lieutenants until 901 

messes of - 565, 966 to 979 

giving paroles, without consent of superiors 1027 

giving paroles, act individually 1028 

when transferred, to be furnished with their accounts. 1052 
having men sent to them without their accounts, to re- 
port 1054 

to guard against desertion, straggling, &c 1078 

rewards not to be offered for the apprehension of, ex- 
cept 1081 

employed at navy yards 1113 

at navy yards, medical attendance of 1205 

when admitted to a naval hospital 1210, 1211 

not to give certificates to traders or inventors 1293 

when to give orders to marine officers of superior rank . 1316 

decease of, in charge of public funds or property 1406 

when on leave of absence, restriction of movements . . . 1423 

applying for leave on account of ill health 1427 

temporary leaves to - 1428 

furloughed only by the department 1431 

on furlough, not to wear their uniforms, except 1432 

directions for official correspondence of . . . - 1433 to 1468 

approving requisitions, pay-rolls, purchases, muster- 
rolls, &c 1469 to 1479 

mileage and allowances for traveling expenses. 1488, 1489, 1491 

1492 



356 INDEX. 

No. of paragraph. 

Officers of the Navy — Continued. 

no allowance for mess of, when passengers 1499 

not allowed extra pay for disbursements . 1505 

the commencement of the pay of . 1507, 1508 

' the commencement of the sea-pay of 1509 

pay of, on sea service and entering a hospital. 1510 

sea and " other-duty " pay of, on sea service and leave 1513 

sea-pay and rations of, in service on rivers or lakes 1514 

pay of, t^ date of sailing, without reference to advances 1519 

on temporary leaves, their duty and pay not affected. . 1520 

accounts of, settled in the Fourth Auditor's office ...... 1521 

witnessing the signatures to pay-rolls by 1525 

transfers of the accounts of . 1538 

Officers, Petty. (See Petty Officers.) 

Officers Warrant. (See Warrant Officers.) 

Officers' Cooks : 

honorable discharges not granted to, but commendatory 

letters. I 1074 

Oils, Explosive : 

not allowed on naval vessels 620, 791 

Oppression : 

persons deeming themselves oppressed by their super- 
iors .1 772 

Orders : 

received by a commander for others under his command 255 
contradictory to those of the department or of a super- 
ior 774 

an officer requiring another to act contrary to 775 

countermanding a written order from a superior 776 

confidential, of an officer on meeting a superior ....... 778 

to be promptly acknowledged 799 

of the department to leave domicile for duty . , 800 

obedience not to be delayed to make complaints.. 809 

detaching officers when a vessel is put out of commis- 
sion 821 

to duty, when to be sent to the commandant 822 

to return from sea service, copy sent to the department 823 

to return from sea service, arrival to be reported 824 

reporting for duty, commanders to indorse date on 852 

to perform the duties of a higher grade 887, 889 

Order Books. (See Books.) 

Ordinary Seamen : 

not to be entered until they have been two years at sea 1344 
allowance to, on re-enlistment, after honorable dis- 
charge 1495 

examination of, for enlistment as seamen gunners 1556 

Ordnance Officers of Navy Yards : 

to take charge of articles under cognizance of bureau. 1150 

to scrutinize all requisitions, and take receipts ........ 1151 



INDEX. 357 

No. of paragraph. 
Ordnance Officers of Navy Yards — Continued. 

to examine, weigh, or measure articles received, &c. . . 1152 

to supervise work, and have general superintendence. 1153 

to prepare pay-rolls, certify and forward to bureau.. . 1154 

to take receipts and inventory articles furnished 1155 

to attend sales and surveys 1156 

to dispose of condemned stores » .- 1157 

to furnish statement of stores landed from a vessel 1158 

to supply vessels with armaments and ordnance stores 1159 
to make requisitions in time, responsible for deficien- 
cies 1160 

P. 

Painters : 

to rank as petty officers 648 

Paroling : 

privileges of officers giving paroles on vessels 1021 

interchange of duplicates to be given and names and 

rank stated '■„ 1024 

who are authorized to give 1025 

of entire bodies of men, &c, uot permitted 1027, 1028 

by an inferior when he can refer to a superior 1027 

to be given through a commissioned officer, except 1029 

cannot be forced upon prisoners by threats or ill-treat- 
ment . . 1030 

nature of engagements that can be entered into 1031 

what cannot be pledged by parole 1032 

captors not obliged to grant parole 1033 

not authorized by the common law of war, invalid, &C.1034, 1035 

Passed Assistant Surgeons. (See Surgeons, Passed Assist- 
ant.) 

Passed Assistant Paymasters. (See Paymasters, Passed 
Assistant.) 

Passengers : 

when commanders-in-chief may not receive 30 

when commanders of vessels may not receive 200 

not allowed to interfere '- 246 

their names to be entered on the log 445 

an admiral, vice-admiral, rear-admiral, or commodore as 641 

junior officers as, when assignable to duty - - 642 

officers entitled to salutes, embaiked as 713 

families not allowed on vessels as 838 

women not taken as, except 839 

foreign seamen in foreign ports not to be taken as, ex- 
cept 840 

officers as, messes and apartments 968, 1499 

Passwords ; 

to be received and issued by chiefs of staff 139 

at navy yards, by whom to be issued 1121, 1327 



358 INDEX. 

No. of paragraph. 
Pay: 

of officers, &c, to commence at date of acceptance 1507 

of promoted officers, when it commences 1508 

sea-pay of officers, its commencement, &c 1509 

sea-pay of officers entering a hospital for treatment. . . 1510 

of chaplains, the same as lieutenants 1511 

graduated, pf boatswains, gunners, carpenters, sail- 
makers ...... 1512 

of officers of sea-going vessels, on sick leave 1513 

of officers of vessels in active service in rivers or lakes. 1514 

of acting officers, confirmed by the department • 1515 

of machinists, firemen, and coal heavers, when to be 

reduced 1516 

no person entitled to, at a hospital, after term of en- 
listment o . . 1517 

when masters-at-arms, yeomen, apothecaries, and pay- 
masters' yeomen, ordered on distant service, will be 

allowed an advance 1518 

officers entitled to, up to date of sailing 1519 

of officers, not affected by temporary leaves of absence. 1520 

accounts of officers paid through the Fourth Auditor. . 1521 

when officers will be allowed " other duty" pay 1513, 1522 

of seamen gunners .' 1559 

Paymasters : 

when accounts are lost by the wreck or capture of a 

vessel 297 

ordered to vessels, to examine store-rooms and report- 543 

to make requisitions for money and stores . 544 

presenting a requisition for approval 545 

when a requisition requires the approval of an officer 

superior to his immediate commanding officer 546 

when authorized to pay money without the sanction of 

his immediate commanding officer 547 

officers whose sanction is required to disburse money. . 548 
when articles are sent out of vessel, to procure an or- 
der ;. 549 

to report articles of improper quality, or deficient in 

quantity 550 

to make no changes on muster-rolls, unless, &c 551 

when accounts of men are transferred 552 

to issue clothing, stores, and money as directed in writ- 
ing, &c 553 

when necessary to purchase clothing on foreign sta- 
tions 554 

when packages cannot be opened without injury 555 

damaged clothing may be issued at reduced prices 556 

to report condition of store-rooms daily 557 

to pay value of relinquished rations in money 558 

not to pay a person in debt to the United States, ex- 
cept 559 



INDEX. 359 

% No. of paragraph. 

Paymasters — Continued. 

to make no change in daily allowance of provisions, 

except 560 

to make monthly and quarterly reports of expenditures . 561 

to draw and negotiate bills of exchange 562 

to report the expiration of service of the men 563 

to take charge of the effects of such as may die, desert, 

or be captured 564 

issuing articles to the messes of officers 565 

when pay agents are to make advances to officers 566 

paying the traveling expenses of officers 567 

when to furnish clothing and small-stores to marines. . 568 
to furnish statement of account of marines who may 

die, desert, or be transferred to a shore station 569 

attached to receiving vessels, to receipt for all recruits, 

&c 570 

to preserve all orders to furnish articles to persons in- 
debted 571 

in foreign ports where a paymaster in charge of stores 

is stationed 572 

to sign descriptive lists attached to certain certificates. 573 

not officers of the line 633 

designation of the relative rank of 635 

when money is deposited with them for safe-keeping . . 795 

when allowed a clerk or yeoman 894 

qualifications of candidates for promotion to 808 

state-rooms for, on vessels 976 

duties of, in relation to allotments 1095, 1097 

on the re-enlistment of a person with an honorable dis- 
charge 1360 

will be appointed at each naval rendezvous 1367 

of receiviog vessels, issuing clothing and stores to re- 
cruits 1376 

in case of their decease, suspension, or removal 1406 

to refer articles unfit for use to a board of survey 1412 

when funds are forfeited by desertion or refunded on 

discharge 1489 

to sign papers relating to the accounts of transferred 

men 1471 

orders for payment of traveling expenses to be certi- 
fied, &c 1489 

when enlisted men are honorably discharged, traveling 

expenses to be paid by 1490 

when traveling expenses of officers are to be paid by.. 1491 
coming to Washington to settle accounts, expenses not- 
allowed 1493 

allowance to for loss of clothing and small-stores 1496 

making additional pay under act of July 17, 1862 1497 

payments by, to caterers, for the subsistence of prisoners. 1498 

payments by, in lieu of spirit rations 1502 



360 INDEX. 

~No. of paragraph*. 
Paymastees — Continued. 

not allowed commissions paid by 'them to other agents 

for making purchases on foreign stations 1506 

other duty pay allowed to, when settling their accounts . 152£ 

to keep their accounts separate under every bond 1523 

transmitting a summary statement to the Fourth Audi- 
tor 1524 

on foreign stations, must send summary statements, 

unless 1525 

of sea-going vessels, what to transmit to the Auditor. . 1525 

on receiving ships or at shore stations 1526 

to forward their original books to the Auditor for set- 
tlement . . 1527 

to prepay the transportation of their accounts, except. l£>28 

to send accounts of deceased persons to the Auditor. . . 1530 

, duties, on the transfer of accounts of officers to other.. 1538 

to produce vouchers to the Auditor 1539 

overpayments by, disallowed, except 1540 

paying off a crew at the end of a cruise. 1541 

not to disburse money to his commanding officer on his 

order 154& 

time limited for rendering final accounts 1543 

of shore stations, time allowed for settlement of ac- 
counts 1544 

failing to render final accounts promptly 1545 

Paymasters at Navy Yards : 

what persons they shall pay 1217, 1218 

men to be divided into gangs for payment, &c 1219 

to pay in the funds which he receives 1220 

to make monthly requisitions for funds ... ....... 1221 

to keep separate accounts of funds received and issued. 1222 

to forward summary statements every two weeks, &c. - 1223 
Paymasters, Assistant : 

to be governed by the instructions to paymasters 574 

not officers of the line 633 

designation of relative rank 635 

qualifications of a candidate for appointment 868 

boards for the examination of 874 

reported not qualified for promotion, to be dropped 878 

not allowed a clerk in vessels of one hundred persons 

or less 894 

state-rooms to be occupied by, on vessels 976 

Paymasters, Passed Assistant: 

to be governed by the instructions to paymasters 574 

not officers of the line 633 

designation of relative rank 635 

boards for the examination of 874 

not allowed a clerk, in vessels of one hundred persons 

or less x 894 

state-rooms to be occupied by, on vessels 976 



INDEX. 361 

No. of paragraph. 
Paymasters' Clerks. (See Clerics.) 
Paymasters, Fleet: 

to be attached to the flag-ship, summary of duties 539 

not to make inspection, &c, without written order 540 

order to be presented to the commander of vessel 541 

detail of officers of corps, to he made by chief of staff. . 542 

designation of relative rank . 635 

how vacancies of, may be filled on foreign stations 896 

Paymasters' Yeomen: 

to rank as petty officers 648 

their appointment and examination 892 

allowed on all vessels having a complement of twenty 894 
not required to perform clerical duties for other pay 

officers, except 895 

not allowed traveling expenses, except 1494 

conditions of advance pay when ordered on distant ser- 
vice 1518 

not required to perform clerical services for other offi- 
cers 1522 

Pennants : 

of a commander of a vessel when hauled down 311 

broad, of a commodore, when relinquishing command. 672 

broad, of a commodore, not to be hoisted on a visit 676 

to be hoisted when a vessel is put in commission 678 

on boats, when meeting other boats 717 

to be half-masted on the decease of a commander of a 

vessel 727 

on the death of an officer not of the line, not to be half- 
masted v 730 

not to be half-masted on the death of a marine officer or 

private 732 

in funeral processions 741, 748 

broad, of a commodore, to be carried at the main 753 

narrow, when and where to be worn on vessels, &c 755 

when to be worn on a boat-staff 756 

broad, to be worn only when in command 757 

broad, of a commodore in command of a shore station. 758 
Pensions : 

commanders of vessels to secure rights of persons to. . 240 

of enlisted men after ten and twenty years' service 1075 

the general and specific duties of officers in relation to 

naval persons entitled to 1415 to 1422 

Personal Staff Officers : 

under the immediate direction of the chief of staff 155 

will act as aids to the commander-in-chief 156 

commander-in-chief can assign them as secretaries 157 

Petty Officers : 

to be present when provisions are served to the crew. 180 

to be supplied with tickets of their stations 347 



362 INDEX. 

No. of paragraph. 

Petty Officers — Continued. 

to exhibit a good example and aid their superiors 609 

allowance of indulgence to - 610 

divided into two classes . 646 

of the line, rank of 647 

not of the line, assimilated rank of 648 

master-at-arms to be the chief 649 

not to have authority, except in their own department . 650 
of the same rate, their precedence fixed by the com- 
mander 651 

relative rank of, w r ith non-commissioned marine offi- 
cers , 652, 654 

ceremonies to be observed on the death of -731 

the messes and apartments of , 892, 978 to 980 

when to be selected and rated 910 

vacancies of, how filled on vessels 911 

enlisted men cannot be transferred as, except 912 

disrating of . . . . 913 to 917 

discharge of, when appointed by commanding officer.. 1059 

rating, how to be obtained by good conduct 1076 

on receiving vessels, recruits not to be rated as 1380 

leaves of absence to 1429 

Pilots : 

when to be kept on board by commanders-in-chief 81 

when the navigation is doubtful, command not to be 

given up 213 

in war, not to leave the vessel, when 276 

the employment and pay of 836 

to report in cases of collision 940 

allowance for the subsistence of ^ 1500 

Port Admirals : 

geographical limits of the command of 1098 

what vessels will report to them and obey their orders. 1099 

to order inspection of vessels by a board 1100 

not to permit vessels to remain in port unnecessarily. 1101 
in relation to rendezvous for recruits and receiving 

vessels 1102 

not to exercise authority over the commandant, &c. .. 1103 

senior line officers to act in the absence of 1104 

to exchange visits with foreign officers, &c 1105 

to select aids when about to visit, &c . ■ 1106 

when commanding officers of navy yards 1107 

authorized to make surveys 1393 

Precedence : 

of officers of the line 630, 635 

of officers not of the line 633, 635 

of officers of the marine corps 636, 637 

of petty officers of the line 647 

of petty officers not of the line ■. 648 



INDEX. 363 

No. of paragraph. 

Precedence — Continued. 

of petty officers of the same rate, how established 651 

between petty officers and non-commissioned marine . 

officers 654 

in navy yards, of the executive officer „ 1144 

of officers on boards 1546 

Presents : 

from inferiors to superiors forbidden 810 

acceptance of, from employe's of yards and others for- 
bidden 812 

President Of the United States : 

how to be received when he visits a vessel 655 

Prisoners : 

. merchant seamen received as 25i 

Prisoners of War : 

the proper treatment of 289, 1021 

to be supplied with rations 290 

to be securely guarded 291 

when to be treated as pirates 1022 

the paroles of 1024 to 1035 

allowance for the subsistence of 1498 

Prizes : 

attention of commanding officers called to the laws. .. 1004 

duties of the commander of a capturing vessel 288, 1005 

property taken out of a prize to be appraised, &c 1006 

when necessary to sell a portion of captured property. 1007 

all material facts relating to a capture to be reported. 1009 

duties of commanding officers claiming to share in 1010 

officers and part crew of, to be sent in custody 1011 

not to be seized in the waters of a friendly nation 1012 

search of suspected vessels — rules of chase 1013 

duties of the officer making search of a suspected vessel 1014 

duties of commander in relation to papers seized on. . 1015 

duties'of a commander in relation to a suspicious vessel 1016 
treatment of the officers and crew of a neutral vessel 

seized 1017 

a neutral vessel seized to wear her own flag, until 1018 

who will be held accountable for instruments and arms 

of 1020 

Prize Masters : 

to vigilantly guard the captured property 1008 

to report their arrival in the United States 1011 

form of instructions to. (See Appendix, No. 15) 1019 

to give receipts for instruments and arms furnished. . . 1020 

Processions : 

funeral and other, directions respecting 741 to 750 

Professors of Mathematics : 

duties of, when ordered to duty on board ship 580 

to make quarterly reports *... 581 

not of the line 633 



364 index. 

No. of paragraph. 

Promotions : 

of officers on foreign service 898 

ensigns, masters, lieutenants, and lieutenant com- 
manders 899 

of masters who have not been promoted from ensigns. 900 
to the grade of lieutenant, prior service required ..... 901 
of acting boatswains, gunners, carpenters, or sail- 
makers 903 

to the grade of first assistant engineer " 904 

to the grade of chief engineer 905 

of engineers outside of the regular corps 906 

of assistant surgeons, after five years service 907 

to the grade of paymaster, qualifications for 908 

to the grade of naval constructor, qualifications for. .. < 909 

of seamen entitled to medals of honor 1093, 1094 

of non-commissioned marine officers on board vessels. 1319 

of non-commissioned marine officers at navy yards 1329 

of officers, from what date carrying pay 1508 

Provisions : 

on vessels, the amount of to be reported 29, 145, 378 

served out to crew, petty officers to be present. . . . 180 

the stowage of 452 to 454 

the inspection of, by surgeons 534 

daily allowance of, not to be changed, except 560 

duties of paymasters in regard to. 147, 549, 550, 560. 561 

when damaged and unfit for issue. 1404, 1406 

Publications . 

relative to naval or military operations forbidden 815, 1461 

of private transactions, and of praise or censure, for- 
bidden 7 816 

of official correspondence forbidden „ . . 1460 

Punishments : 

cruelty not to be practiced in, nor violation of law 232 

to be reported by commanding officers ....!. 233 

the executive officer to be responsible for the register of 362 

to be entered on the log 445 

account of, to be kept by master-at-arms 600 

Purchasing Agents at Shore Stations : 

duties of, in the purchase of stores 1286 

requisitions for open purchases, to be approved by bu- 
reaus 1287 

the purchase of articles by, on failure of contractor. .. 1288 

transportation of articles and drafts of men 1289 

to certify that purchases are at the lowest market rates 1290 

duties of, in the transportation of articles by charter.. 1291 

where to keep their deposits of funds 1292 

to have no private interest in purchases 1293 

to make no sales or purchases without authority 1294 

when to pay bills for articles furnished or services ren- 
dered 1295,1472 






INDEX. 365 

No. of paragraph. 

Purchasing Agents, &c. — Continued. 

to pay all bills out of the proper appropriations 1296 

requisitions upon the department and bureaus by 1297 

to make monthly returns of moneys received, expend- 
ed, &c 1298 

when authorized to make advances of pay to officers.. 1299 

paying bills, responsible for their correctness 1472 

to make purchases on the most favorable terms 1478 

delivering goods to an officer, the bills to be examined. 1479 

when supplies are purchased without advertisement.. 1537 

Purchases in Foreign Ports: 

directions relative to 58, 59, 65, 66, 1506 

of clothing, the kind, quality, and amount of 554 

commanding officers making payment for 1476, 1477 

Q. 

Qualifications. (See Applications.) 

Quarantine : 

commanding officers to conform to the regulations of. . 1046 

precautions in boarding — no concealment of liability to 1047 

precautions, with an infectious disease on vessels 1048 

if an infectious disease break out when at sea 1049 

every facility to be extended to health boats 1050 

Quarter Gunners : 

to rank as petty officers of the line 647 

Quartermasters : 

to rank as petty officers of the line 647 

R. 

Rates of Vessels : 

what constitutes first 1 

what constituts second 2 

what constitutes third 3 

what constitutes fourth 4 

when used as storeships or receiving ships 5 

Ratings : (See Disrating.) 

commanding officers not to exceed the number allowed 

in 168 

of all persons on vessels to be entered on the log 445 

of the petty officers of a sea-going vessel, by whom fixed 910 

in case of a vacancy how petty officer may be rated. . . 911 
transfer of an enlisted person with the rating of a petty 

officer 912 

various regulations in respect to 913 

change of, when the notice to paymaster takes effect.. 916 

Rations : 

may be issued to passengers 237 

prisoners of war to be supplied with 290 



366 index. 

No. of paragraph. 
Rations — Continued. 

relinquishment of, in messes 558, 559 

not to be changed, except 560 

allowance in lieu of spirit, commutation price of 1502 

Rear-Admirals : 

the command of . I 8 

officers of the line 630 

embarked as passengers, authority of 641 

on assuming or relinquishing command afloat 669 

visiting, their flags not to be hoisted without orders. . . 674 

employed on shore, and visiting a vessel on duty 677 

assuming or relinquishing command of a shore station 680 
the distinguishing flag of. (See Signal Book.) 

boats meeting boats with the flags of ,717 

the distinguishing flags of, where to be carried 753 

commanding a shore station, to wear and hoist flag ... 758 
Receiving Vessels : 

rate of, to be decided by the department 5 

to receive persons sent to a hospital 956 

under supervision of the port admiral 1102 

commanders of, on receiving recruits 1368 

recruits to be examined on board of, &c 1369 

commanders of, to verify the descriptive lists 1370 

descriptive lists to be kept by the executive officers of. 1371 
descriptive and clothes lists to go with transferred re- 
cruits 1372 

transcript lists to be kept by the paymasters of 1373 

accounts and transcript lists to go with transferred 

recruits 1374 

clothing and bedding to be examined and marked, &c. 1375 

issuing clothing or small stores to recruits on board of. 1376 

preventing desertions and granting liberty to recruits. 1377 

recruits on, to be regularly exercised, instruction of 1378 

recruits on board of, the employment of, in navy yards. 1379 

recruits on board of, not to be rated as petty officers. . 1380 

duties of officers of, in selecting recruits for transfer. . . 1381 

commanders of, to make the selections for a draft 1382 

a draft from, reported as improperly selected 1383 

when men are enlisted for a particular vessel 1384 

men so drunk as to require restraint not to be received 

on 1385 

men receiving injuries after entry at the rendezvous.. 1386 

commanding and other officers to live on board of, &c. 1387 

returns from, to be forwarded every Saturday 1388 

Recruiting Officers : 

to be constant in attendance at rendezvous , 1342 

juniors not to do the duties of seniors, except 1343 

to read the shipping articles to recruits 1349 

duties of, in providing clothing for recruits 1354 



INDEX. 367 

No. of paragraph. 

Recruiting Officers — Continued. 

duties of, in making transcript and descriptive lists 1358 

to note on honorable discharges physical disqualifica- 
tions ^ 1359 

to note on honorable discharge dates of re-enlistments. 1360 
not to have over $1,000 of public money, to report 

weekly 1361 

not to make advances or give bounties, except 136& 

when advances are made or bounties given by 1363 

to induce recruits to receive advances on the vessel, &,c . 1364 

when securities of recruits may be dispensed with 1365 

to forward reports every Saturday evening 136fr 

Recruits : 

ages, sizes, and qualifications of 1344 

not to be enlisted unless the examinations are favor- 
able 1345 

to take the oath of allegiance 1346 

previously in the service to show their discharges 1347 

descriptive lists of, when not enlisted at a rendezvous. 1348 
the shipping articles to be read to, before enlistment.. 1349 

if drunk, or convicted of crime, not to be received 1350 j 

not to be rated higher than a seaman, unless a fireman. 1351 
machinists, firemen, and coal-heavers, to be examined. 1352 
enlisted for particular duties, with complaints or inju- 
ries.... 1353 

making advances and furnishing clothing for 1354 

delivered on a vessel, to have transcript and descriptive 

lists 1355 

transcript lists of, what they must set forth 1356 

descriptive lists of, what they must set forth 1357 

transcript and descriptive lists of, how prepared, &c. 1358 
holding honorable discharges, and physically disquali- 
fied - 1359 

advances and bounties to 1362 to 1365 

for vessels on foreign service to fill vacancies 1367 

Recruits on Receiving Vessels. (See Receiving Vessels.) 

Refugees : 

on vessels to be sent back *. 205 

accused of crimes, to be delivered to the proper author- 
ities 793 

Remark Book. (See Books.) 

Reports : 

bv admirals 21 2^£ 

by commanders-in-chief. .. 28, 56, 67, 74, 93," 1*02, 105, 107, 108, 

849, 1057 
by commanders of fleets, squadrons, or divisions . . . 92, 115, 117 y 

129,849,850 

by chiefs of staff... 136,137 

by commandants of yards 850, 855, 1123, 1129, 1141 



368 INDEX. 

IsTo. of paragraph. 

Eeports — Continued. 

by commandants of stations 850, 855, 1020, 1123 

by commanders of vessels.. . 92, 101, 127, 147, 183, 188, 208, 233, 
241, 242, 243, 256, 259, 268, 292, 296, 629, 850, 940, 959, 1415, 1416 

by commanders of steam vessels 322 

by lieutenant commanders, lieutenants and masters.. '„■ 403 

by officers of the navy-.. 115, 138, 258, 721, 772, 773, 818, 823, 

824, 897, 1054, 1062 

by boards 1551 

by boards of examination 872 

by boards of survey.. .. . . 1400 to 1403, 1406 to 1411, 1413, 1414 

by fleet surgeons . . 517 

by surgeons 522, 524, 526, 533, 534 

by surgeons at yards 1207 

by medical officers 522, 524, 532, 535, 1417 

by paymasters . 543, 547, 557, 563, 834 

by chief engineers. . . 357, 495, 496, 497, 508, 1188, 1190, 1198, 1202 
by executive officers. . 92, 181, 339, 352, 353, 356, 358, 378, 398, 400 

by officers of the deck 940 

by engineers •. . 332 

Iby assistant engineers - 512, 513 

by professors of mathematics 580, 581 

by chaplains .... 579 

by navigators 439,442, 458, 1487 

by navigation officers at yards 1171 

by naval constructors at yards . , 1229, 1230, 1239 

by executive officers of yards 1145 

by civil engineers at yards .... 1242, 1243, 1245 

* by inspectors at yards or stations . 130 

by foremen at yards 1247 

by boatswains.... 357,469,472,474 

bv gunners. 357,469,472,474,481 

by carpenters 357,583,588,589 

by sailmakers 357, 590 

by yeomen 379,460,469 

by masters-at-arms « 600 

by petty officers and others 187 

by commanding officers at a rendezvous 1361, 1366 

by commanding officers of receiving vessels 1388 

by pilots 940 

by prize masters 1011 

Eequisitions : 

approval of, by commanders-in-chief. 65 

in preparing squadrons or divisions for sea 116 

for money to be transmitted through chiefs of staff 147 

for deficiencies on vessels arriving in port 21 6 

of pay-officers, to go through fleet paymaster 539 

for money, by paymasters, to be approved 544 to 546 

in foreign ports by a paymaster in charge of stores 572 



INDEX. 369 

Xo. of paragraph. 

Requisitions — Continued. 

for supplies, to be examined and approved by comman- 
ders J 960,961 

by ordnance officers of a navy yard 1160 

by the navigation officer of a navy yard 1172 

by the equipment officer of a navy yard 1183 

by the chief engineer of a navy yard 1197 

monthly, by the paymasters of yards 1221 

by naval constructors at yards 1235 

by civil engineers at yards 1246 

by officers in charge of stores 1266, 1269, 1270 

by purchasing agents at shore stations 1286, 1287, 1297 

by recruiting officers . 1361 

for money, the approval of 1469, 1473 

addressed to an agent of4he department 1478 

Residence : 

officers not on duty, to keep the department advised of . 797,798 
of officers, what is considered such, not to be changed 

without informing the department 804 

Responsibility : 

of commanders of vessels on assuming command 163 

of the executive officer for the execution of orders 343 

of commanders, not relieved by employment of pilots. 836 

of officers, for their secretaries and clerks 871 

of prize masters, for captured and other property 1008, 1020 

of officers in charge of stores 1264 

of time clerks of yards 1282 

of foremen at yards 1284 

of officers in approving requisitions . . . , 1469 

of paymasters certifying accounts 1471 

of officers, authorizing payment of money 1474 

of a marine officer commanding a guard 1504 

Royal Families : 

members of, visiting a vessel or station 660, 682 

Rule of the Road : 

of boats to prevent fouling 717 

S 
Sailmakers : 

to report twice a day to the executive officer 357 

to regard the general instructions to boatswains and 

gunners 582 

to examine the sails daily and report 590 

duties of, before and after sails are received 591 

officers not of the line 633 

qualifications for the appointment of 865 

boards for the examination of 874 

warrants, after service under acting appointments 903 

room to be occupied by, on vessels 977 

sea service of, from what date to be computed 1512 

24 n R 



370 INDEX. 

No. of paragraph. 

Sailmakers Mates : 

to rank as petty officers 648 

Sails :. 

when to be nsed on steam vessels . . 317, 318 

duties of sailmakers in the care of . . .. . 590, 591 

not to be furled when a place is saluted 705 

when to be lowered to other vessels as a compliment. . 712 

Salutes. (See Military Honors, Ceremonies and Salutes.) 

Schoolmasters : 

to rank as petty officers 648 

Sea Service: 

what shall be regarded as ; 825, 1514 

of officers, on vessels of the Coast Survey 826 

of engineers, prescribed as necessary to advancement.. 906 

of warrant officers, how to be computed 1512 

Sea Pay: 

of officers, commencement of 1509 

of officers entering a hospital for treatment 1510 

of officers, on leave of absence, on account of ill health- 1513 

Seamen : 

ordinary, to be instructed 227 

distressed American, in foreign ports, to be received. . . 250 

merchant, in foreign ports, received as prisoners 251 

to have tickets of their stations 347 

accused of crime, to be delivered to civil magistrates. . 792 

foreign, not to be received as passengers, except ...... 840 

when entitled to medals of honor 1093, 1094 

requirements of, prior to enlistment 1344 

may be enlisted in foreign ports to fill vacancies : 1367 

extra pay to, on re-enlistment after honorable discharge . 1495 

enlistment of, as seamen gunners 1556, 1557 

Seamen Gunners: 

examinations required before enlistment as 1556 

enlisted for iiYe years, if accepted 1557 

transferred to gunnery ship, course of instruction 1558 

candidates for, examined by a board, rank and pay 1559 

a proportion of, will be drafted to each vessel, &c ..... 1560 

to fill the rating of gunner's mates and other ratings. . 1561 

no others eligible for gunners or acting gunners 1562 

their employment, as instructors and captains of guns. 1563 
the letters S. G. to be agaiust their names on the books. 1564 
entitled to the benefits of continuous service certifi- 
cates, &c 1565 

may receive leave of absence of five months, &c 1566 

Secretary of the Navy : 

the distinctive flag of. (See Signal Book.) 

when visiting a vessel of war of the United States 752 

permission to officers to leave the United States, may 

be granted by 1423 

officers can only be placed on furlough by 1431 



INDEX. 371 

No. of paragraph. 

Secretary of the Navy — Continued. 

directions fop correspondence with 1433 to 1468 

Second Assistant Engineers. (See Engineers, Second As- 
sistant.) 

Secretaries : 

of admirals and vice-admirals, their relative rank-. .... 635 

not to be under 21 years of age, responsibility for 871 

ajDpointment and discharge of, their obligations. 891 

of commanders-in-chief , messes and apartments ... 966 

to have charge of the books of flag vessels 1487 

when entitled to traveling expenses 1488 

commencement of pay and time of appointment 1507 

Sentinels : 

to be posted by the executive officer on vessels 366 

on vessels in port, duties of the executive officer 372 

at gangways, to salute officers 718 

Sergeants of Marines : 

their relative rank, on vessels 652 

Shipping Articles : 

notes to be made on, by commanding officers 167 

to be read to recruits before enlistment 1349 

printed, to be furnished vessels before sailing on a cruise . 1367 

Ship's Cooks : 

rank of as petty officers t = . . . 648 

Ship's Corporals : 

duty of in regard to bumboats 389 

subordinate to and assistants of masters-at-arms 604, 608 

rank of as petty officers 648 

Ship's Writers: 

rank of as petty officers 648 

Shipwreck : 

duties of commanding officers in cases of 294 to 300 

persons separated from their vessels by 1092 

Side-boys : 

when employed at receptions 665, 669, 679, 686 

Signals : 

commander-in-chief to exercise vessels in making 37 

by commander-in-chief, when about to anchor 45 

private, of commander-in-chief, when to be communi- 
cated 87 

vessels of squadrons or divisions to be regulated by . . . 119, 279 

general, in presence of an enemy 120 

to be made to a vessel avoiding battle 121 

in battle, when vessels of commanders-in-chief cannot 

make 124 

in battle, chiefs of staff to superintend 151 

not to be made by commanders of vessels, except 206 

dangers to be reported by, to commanders-in-chief 208 

suggestions in relation to, to be made to the department - 215 

by a commander to a senior, on entering port 218 



372 INDEX. 

No. of paragraph. 

Signals — Continued. 

in a dark night or fog, when they cannot be made 278 

to be seized when a vessel is captured 288 

to be destroyed when a vessel is about to surrender. . . 293 
by subordinate officers, not to be made without author- 
ity ,. 412 

to be in charge of the navigator 440, 445 

to be arranged with convoys 988, 992, 995 

disobedience of, by masters of convoys 995, 996 

Signal Books : 

to be kept by chiefs of staff 143 

when to be compared by commanders of vessels 215 

to be delivered to successors 270 

Signal Corps : 

under control of the chief of staff 142 

Signal Lanterns : 

in battle, to be hoisted at night * 86 

Signal Quartermasters : 

to rank as petty officers of the line 647 

Silver : 

percentage for safe-keeping or freight of, how divided. 842 

Slave Trade : 

instructions furnished to vessels detailed to suppress. . 1023 

Slush : 

when sold, disposition of the proceeds 833 

Sovereigns, Foreign : 

visiting a naval vessel or station . > 659, 682 

Spirit Eation : 

the commutation of, regulations respecting 1502 

Spirituous Liquors : 

the smuggling of, on vessels, to be prevented 604 

those not distilled and not forbidden 841 

Staff Officers, Personal. (See Personal Staff Officers.) 

States, Governors of : 

visiting a naval vessel, or station, how received 658, 682 

State Eooms. (See Apartments.) 

Steam Heaters : 

not to be removed in warm weather 830 

Steam-log : 

to be examined daily by the commander 327 

copy of to be sent quarterly to the department 328 

entries to be made in 495, 507, 514 

how kept, disposition of, copy to be sent quarterly 505 

quarterly report by chief engineer to accompany 508 

Steam Vessels. (See Commanding Officers of Steam Vessels.) 

rules respecting collisions of 932 to 936 

accidents to the machinery of 1409 

Stewards : 

of officers, honorable discharges not given to, but com- 
mendatory letters 1074 



INDEX. 373 

Ko. of paragraph. 

Storeships : 

not to give or return salutes : 688 

Stowage : 

of spare articles, to be directed by the executive officer. 363 

when to be superintended by the navigator 452 

of provisions, directions respecting 453 

when completed, entries to be made in the log-book. . . 454, 455 
when at a yard or private establishment, navigator's 

duty 456 

Stragglers : 

apprehension of and rewards for 1078 to 1080 

Succession in Command. (See Command, Succession in.) 

Sundays : 

when national anniversaries occur on 693 

when salutes are not to be given on 694 

the observance of, on vessels and at yards and stations. 843 

Supreme Court, Justices of : 

visiting a naval vessel or station 658, 682 

Surgeons : 

to send a sick-list to commanding officers daily 182 

to procure bills of health for a vessel before sailing.. . 202 

to make physical examinations 346 

general duties of 521 

rooms under his charge, to report them for inspection. 522 

to be attentive to comfort and cleanliness of patients. . 523 

to make daily reports and suggestions, binnacle list. . . 524 

to take precautions against infectious disease, &c 525 

to examine with reference to vaccination and report . . . 526 

to be allowed a store-room and proper assistants 527 

to have everything ready for relief of the wounded- . . 528 

to distribute tourniquets on the eve of battle 529 

to examine articles of food brought in boats for sale. . 530 

the journal of his daily practice, disposition of 531 

duty of, as to wounded who may be entitled to a pension . 532 

duty of, when persons are sent to a hospital 532 

to inspect provisions, test purity of water, report, &c. 533 

gjter battle, to make report of killed and wounded, &c. 534 

not officers of the line 633 

designation of relative rank 635 

position of, in funeral x>rocessions - 750 

who are entitled to the attendance of 827, 828 

may axipoint apothecaries and nurses 893 

duties of, at naval hospitals 1210 to 1215, 1419, 1420 

Surgeons, Assistant : 

summary of their general duties 536 

to personally attend to medicines 537 

senior to perform duties of surgeon in his absence 538 

not officers of the line 633 

designation of rank 635 



374 INDEX. . 

No. of paragraph. 

Surgeons, Assistant— Continued. 

qualifications of a candidate for appointment 869 

examining board to scrutinize physical qualifications of. 872 

reported not qualified for promotion, to be dropped. . . 878 

after five years' service, &c, entitled to examination. . 907 

rooms on vessels to be occupied by . 976 

duties of, at a navy yard or hospital 1216 

Surgeons, Passed Assistant : 

summary of their general duties - 536 

to personally attend to medicines 537 

senior, to perform duties of surgeon in his absence 538 

not officers of the line 633 

designation of relative rank 635 

duties of, at a navy yard or hospital 1216 

Surgeons, Fleet : 

statement in detail of the duties of 517 

not to make an inspection or examination without writ- 
ten order 518 

the order to be presented to commander of vessel 519 

the detail of officers to be made by the chief of staff. . 520 

designation of rank 635 

how vacancies may be filled on foreign stations ... 896 

Surgeons of Navy Yards : 

the general duties of 1204 

to whom they will give professional attention 1205 

duties, in case of injuries to mechanics or laborers 1206 

to make daily sick reports to the commandant 1207 

to attend families of "officers attached to the yard 1208 

to inspect recruits and candidates for appointment 1209 

Surveys : 

of stores, at the end of a cruise 436, 437 

of condemned stores, to be entered on log-book 445 

of stores of boatswain and gunner when unfit for service . 471 

of stores, when a vessel is about to be dismantled . 473 

of machinery of steam vessels 484 

of the injury to vessels after a collision 940 

of clothing, to prevent the spread of disease 943 

of stores, when a vessel is placed in ordinary 963 

of enlisted men, for pension, after 10 or 20 years' service. 1075 
of stores and outfits, when a vessel is transferred to a 

yard 1142 

at yards, of articles in the Ordnance Department. . . 1157, 1158 
at yards, of articles under Bureau of Navigation — 1167, 1168 

at yards, of materials, foremen to attend 1255 

how orders for surveys shall be made 1389 

by chiefs of bureaus on articles in their departments.. 1390 

by commandants of navy yards „ 1391 

by commandants of naval stations 1392 



i^dex. 375 

No. of paragraph. 
Surveys — Continued. 

by port admirals, commanders-in-chief, commanders of 
divisions or squadrons, senior officers present, and 

commanders of vessels 1393 

enumeration of navy yards referred to 1394 

enumeration of naval stations referred to 1395 

regulations in relation to, at yards or stations 1396 

applications for, to be in writing, in form, &c 1397 

selection of officers for boards of 1398 

officers on, may call for information 1399 

reports of, what to specify 1400 

when quantities are required to be ascertained 1401 

reports to be in triplicate, bow prepared ' 1402 

when there are discrepancies between marks and con- 
tents 1403 

no articles to be thrown overboard, unless 1404 

of condemned stores or provisions in foreign ports or in 

the United States 1405 

when an officer shall die, be suspended, removed, or 

separated from his vessel 1406 

officers on, to perform their duties with fidelity 1407 

quantities to be expressed in writing, and not in 

figures 1408 

on the machinery of a steamer, deranged 1409 

on persons deemed by commanding officers unfit for 

duty 1410 

on account of temporary disability, duplicate reports 

to bureau 1411 

quarterly boards of, to be appointed, their duties. 1412 

the board to report at the end of the quarter in triplicate . 1413 

when a member of the board dies or is detached 1414 

Surveying- Vessels : 

not to fire or return salutes 688 

Suspension : 

officers under, restriction of their movements 805 

reports of, to be forwarded by commanding officers 850 

of an officer having charge of public money or stores. . 1406 



T. 

Tattoo : 

after, side lights may be dispensed with, except one. . . 719 

time for beating 790 

Testimonials : 

from inferior to superior officers forbidden 810 

written, of the conduct of officers, how and by whom 

given 811 

not to be accepted from employes of yards, &c 812 

required with nominations to offices in yards 1262 



376 INDEX. 

No. of paragraph. 

Time Clerks : 

at navy yards, responsibility of. ... . 1282 

at navy yards, the duties of 1283 

Titles : 

by which officers of the navy are to he addressed 845 

by officers holding acting appointments 889 

Towing : 

mercantile steam vessels not to he hired for, except- .. 829 

naval war steamers not to he used for, except . . . 90, 831 

Towns: 

colors of vessels to he hoisted in passing = . . . 790 

Transcript Lists: 

to accompany the transfer of all persons other than 

officers ...... 1053 

to accompany recruits sent to a receiving vessel ...... 1355 

what should he set forth by ... . . 167, 1356 

to be prepared at the rendezvous, and recorded 1358 

the paymaster to receipt to the recruiting officer for.. 1368, 1471 

to be kept and recorded by the paymaster 1373 

to accompany recruits when transferred 1374 

Transfers : 

of enlisted men as petty officers, not permitted, ex- 
cept 912 

by whom they may be made, and how 147, 1051 

of officers, their accounts to be furnished, &c ..... 1052 

of other than officers, accounts, &c, to accompany 

them „. 552,1053 

omission to send accounts should be reported 1054 

of marines, from one station to another 1336 

duties of paymasters, relating to 1521, 1525, 1538 

Transportation : 

by purchasing agents of property or drafts of men . . . 1289, 1290 

Transports, Naval : 

not to fire or return salutes 688 

army officers on, how to be accommodated 983, 984 

Traveling Expenses : 

of officers under orders, where there is no pay agent, 

how paid . . 567 

of officers to the seat of government, not allowed, ex- 
cept 824 

not allowed to candidates undergoing examinations for 
appointment, except to the Naval Academy when 

successful 880 

when officers and others are entitled to 1488 

to persons ordered as members of courts, boards, and 

as witnesses . 1489 

to enlisted men honorably discharged within the United 

States 1490 

of officers, how and when paid « 1491 



INDEX. 377 

No. of paragraph. 
Traveling Expenses — Continued. 

of officers, ordered to or returning from foreign service. 1492 
of paymasters, coming to Washington to settle ac- 
counts '. , , 1493 

of paymasters, yeomen and apothecaries, not allowed 

except 1494 

Treasure : 

percentage for freight or safe-keeping of, how distrib- 
uted 842 

U. 
Uniform : 

changes or modification of, not permitted 186 

the prescribed regulations for, to be strictly adhered to. 801 

of officers holding acting appointments 889 

of officers and soldiers of marines in garrison — . . 1339 

officers on furlough not to wear, except 1432 

V. 

Vacancies : 

caused by death abroad, by whom and how to be filled 884 

temporary, occurring abroad, how to be filled 885 

when commanders of vessels are not allowed to fill.. . 886 

of fleet surgeons, fleet paymasters, and fleet engineers, 

abroad 896 

occurring among petty officers on vessels, how filled. . 911 

Vessels of the Navy : (See Steam Vessels.) 

classification of first rates 1 

classification of second rates 2 

classification of third rates '. 3 

classification of fourth rates 4 

inspection of, by commander-in-chief 69 to 71 

to be provided with bills of health 202 

inspection of, by commanding officers 181 

sustaining accidental injury, reports of 242 

injured by collision, duties of commander 243, 244, 940 

when in danger 295, 614 

when lost or captured 296 to 300 

when approaching land or going into port 613, 614, 1046 

preservation and safety of 612 to 629 

unauthorized changes in 782 

what class of may fire salutes 688 

exchanging courtesies with foreign vessels and author- 
ities 695 to 713 

when to half-mast their colors 725 to 735 

two or more in company, regulation of their motions. . 781 

on the coast of Africa, precautions to be observed 832 

rules to be observed by, to avoid collisions 918 to 940 

25nr 



378 INDEX. 

No. of paragraph. 

Vessels of the Navy — Continued. 

sanitary precautions to be observed on 941 

when equipped ... - 959 to 962, 1131, 1182 

when about to be placed in ordinary. 963, 965 

apartments and messes in „ 966 to 981 

convoying other vessels 988 to 1003 

when subject to quarantine 1046 to 1050 

in ordinary, about to be equipped 1130 

the construction, equipment and repair of 1132, 1228 to 1239 

Vice-Admiral : 

may command fleets, squadrons, naval stations, &c. . 7 

to perform the duties of Admiral during his absence or 

illness • 24 

may command a foreign station . „ 25 

classed as an officer of the line 630 

embarked as a passenger, his -authority „ 641 

assuming or relinquishing command afloat ...» 668 

visiting, his flag not to be hoisted without his order.. 674 
assuming or relinquishing command of a yard or sta- 
tion 680 

the distinctive flag of. (See Signal Boole.) 

when his distinguishing flag shall be carried 753 

in command of a shore station, to wear his flag, &c .. - 758 

Vice-President : 

visiting a naval vessel or station 656, 682 

,W. 

Ward-rooms : 

the occupation of by officers 976 

Warrant Officers : 

cannot put themselves on duty by virtue of their war- 
rant alone 643 

arriving or leaving a vessel, ceremonies to be observed. 686 

in boats, salutes to 717 

death of, funeral ceremonies 729 

accused of crime 792 

eligible to, after serving six months as acting 903 

promotions to, on account of heroism 1093 

computation of the date of sea service of 1512 

Watch Officers : 

lieutenant commanders, lieutenants, and masters 

are... '. 12,13,14,402 

a sufficient number of, to be always on board vessels . . 191 

special duties of 402 to 417 

to sign the log 444, 505 

junior, to attend the arrival and departure of an Ad- 
miral 667 

Water : 

quantity of to be reported daily 378, 460 



INDEX. 379 

No. of paragraph. 

Water — Continued. 

for boats, to be kept in readiness 380 

purity of, to be tested by the surgeon . . 534, 951 

daily allowance of to men, not less than one gallon. . . 952 

Wills: 

j)ayment of arrearages claimed under 153.4, 1535 

Wine : 

not prohibited by law on naval vessels 841 

Y. 

Yeomen: 

to be present when his stores are coming on board 340 

to examine articles and stores and report 469 

what stores they shall receipt and be responsible 

for , 469,472,592 

duties of, as to lights in store-rooms, fires, and private 

stores 593 

manner of keeping accounts of receipts and expendi- 
tures 594 

to present accounts weekly to executive officer 379, 595 

to present the abstract expense- books monthly, &c . . . 596 

duties of, when a vessel is to be paid off.- 597 

to receive three-fourths pay until stores have been ex- 
amined, &c 311, 598 

to rank as petty officers 648 

appointment and examination of 892 

directions respecting the discharge of 1060, 1061 

condition of advance pay when ordered on distant ser- 
vice 1518 

Yeomen, Paymasters 7 . (See Paymasters' Yeomen.) 



